Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D in Biotechnology (2017 – ongoing)
  Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
• M.S. in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology (2015-2017)
  Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
• B.S. in Biology (2011-2015)
  University of Vigo (Spain)
  • Erasmus+ (2014). University of Coimbra (Portugal).

Experience

• Predoctoral researcher (04/2017-present)
  Spanish research council (CSIC) // Supervisor: Professor Santiago F. Elena

• Research Intership (05/2016-12/2016)
  Biopolis S.L. (Valencia, Spain) // Supervisor: Professor Daniel Ramón

• Department research assistant (01/2015-07/2015)
  University of Vigo (Vigo, Spain) // Supervisor: Dr. Josefina Garrido

• Volunteer Research Assistant (06/2013-07/2013)
  University of Vigo (Vigo, Spain) // Supervisor: Professor Emilio Rolán

Awards

(2020-2021) AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science

(2020) EMBO Short-Term Fellowship

(2020) Fisabio-Valencia University Chair for financing research stays in Europe

(2017-2021) Research Personnel Training (FPI) grant (BES-2016-077078)

(2015) MINECO-FEDER Department collaboration grant (BOE-A-2015-700)

Memberships

Spanish Society for Virology (SEV)- since May of 2018

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)- since July of 2019

European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)- since November of 2019

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)- since January 2020

Publications

List

Contributed Presentations

Oral

Butković, A., González, R., Elena, S.F. (2020) Mapping Arabidopsis thaliana genes involved in plant response to a turnip mosaic potyvirus (TuMV) infection. Wellcome Genome Campus 3rd meeting on Evolutionary Systems Biology (Hixton, UK).

González, R.; Butković, A.; Martínez-Latorre, J.; Melero, I.; Pérez-Parets, E.; de la Iglesia, F.; Elena, S.F. (2019) “Evolving towards mutualism: an experimental study on the virus-host interactions changes induced by the environment”. Experimental Evolution Workshop (Biar, Spain).

González, R.; Butković, A.; Martínez-Latorre, J.; Melero, I.; de la Iglesia, F.; Elena, S.F. (2019) “Environmental stress shapes the evolution of a potyvirus towards a mutualistic relationship with its host”. Conférences Jacques-Monod (Roscoff, France).

González, R.; de la Iglesia, F.; Butković, A.; Elena, S.F. (2019) “Evolution of virulence of an emerging RNA virus in homogeneous vs heterogenous plant populations”. XXIes Juornées Francophones de Virologie (Lyon, France).

Elena, S.F.; Martínez, F.; Ambrós, S.; Butković, A.; Carrasco, J.L.; de la Iglesia, F.; González, R.; Navarro, R. (2019) “Variability in resistance genes conditions the evolution of emerging plant RNA viruses”. International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium (Seul, South Korea).

Elena, S.F.; Martínez, F.; Ambrós, S.; Butković, A.; Carrasco, J.L.; de la Iglesia, F.; González, R.; Navarro, R. (2018) “Host variability in resistance genes conditions the evolution of emerging plant RNA virus”. XIII Reunión de Biología Vegetal (Puerto Varas, Chile).

González, R.; Elena, S.F. (2018) “Evolution of RNA viruses in hosts with variable susceptibility”. 24th European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (Bubión, España).

González, R.; Martorell, P.; Ramón, D.; Elena, S.F.; Ambrós, S. (2017) “Evaluation of Caenorhabditis elegans as experimental host for a thrip-transmitted plant RNA virus”. VI Spanish Worm Meeting (Valencia, Spain).

Poster presentations

Butković, A., González, R., Rivarez P., de la Iglesia F., Elena, S.F. (2020) Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify genes involved in differential response of Arabidopsis thaliana to infection with generalist and specialist strains of a potyvirus. Wellcome Genome Campus 3rd meeting on Evolutionary Systems Biology (Hixton, UK).

González, R.; Butković, A.; Martínez-Latorre, J.; Melero, I.; Pérez-Parets, E.; de la Iglesia, F.; Elena, S.F. (2020) “Virus evolution in the pathosystem turnip mosaic potyvirus – Arabidopsis thaliana under drought conditions selects for viruses who enhance the host tolerance to water deficiency.”. Wellcome Genome Campus 3rd meeting on Evolutionary Systems Biology (Hixton, UK).

González, R.; Butković, A.; Martínez, J.; Melero; I.; Elena, S.F. (2019) “Evolving in drought conditions: consequences in the interaction between a potyvirus and Arabidopsis thaliana”. 10th Workshop in Virus Evolution (State College Pennsylvania, USA).

Álvarez-Troncoso, R.; Fernández, F.; González, R.; Miguez, C.; Garrido, J. (2016) “Variación de las comunidades de insectos en el río Fragoso (Ourense, NO España) en relación con el impacto de las minicentrales: 2001-2015”. Iberian Congress of Entomology (Lisbon, Portugal).