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Alba R. Díez obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from Universidade da Coruña (Spain) in 2013 and then completed 1 year of a Master's Degree in Biotechnology from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). In 2014, she was awarded a fellowship from Xunta de Galicia that allowed her to carry out an internship in Philip Wigge's group at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge (SLCU), followed by an internship in Katja Jaeger's group at the same Institute. She then became a Junior Laboratory technician in Philip Wigge's group and later on in Yrjo Helariutta's group, also at SLCU. In 2016, Alba Díez moved to Portugal after being accepted in the highly competitive Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) PhD Programme in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine. She joined Paula Duque's group in 2017, where her thesis work is addressing the contribution of alternative splicing and chromatin dynamics to the stress tolerance of the plant model Arabidopsis thaliana. Since beginning her PhD, she attended 7 meetings to present her results, including the 2019 Society of Experimental Biology (SEB) Annual Meeting in Sevilla, the FV2019 in Pamplona, the 2nd PhD Meeting in Plant Science (online) and the Plant Biology Europe 2021 meeting. She has received three travel grants to attend scientific meetings, a best poster award as well as a best oral communication, best flash-talk and a runner-up best oral communication awards. She also co-organized an international PhD meeting and contributed to 8 science outreach events. She has published a first author publication in The Plant Journal, and a first author and second author publications in Methods in Molecular Biology. Her PhD thesis defence is expected in 2024.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alba Rodríguez Díez
Date of birth
1991/12/10

Citation names

  • Díez, Alba R.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4C16-9E8C-7F24
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6497-2269

Email addresses

  • adiez@igc.gulbenkian.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 211157704 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, 2780-156, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Plant sciences
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
Galician (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016 - 2021
Ongoing
 IGC PhD Programme in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine 2016 (Doutoramento)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2013/09 - 2014/06
Attended
 Biotechnology (1 year completed) (Master)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Facultad de Farmacia, Spain
 8.47/10
2009/09 - 2013/07
Concluded
 Biology (Bachelor)
Universidade da Coruña Facultade de Ciencias, Spain
"Análisis Biogeográfico de las especies Sudafricanas del género Anthoxanthum L." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 6.72/10
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/01 - Current PhD Student in Paula Duque's Group - Contribution of alternative splicing and chromatin dynamics to the stress tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2015/03 - 2015/10 Junior Laboratory Technician in Prof. Yrjo Helariutta's Group - Experimental support to laboratory members in ongoing projects on the fields of molecular biology, genetics and histology University of Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
2014/12 - 2015/02 Junior Laboratory Technician in Dr. Philip Wigge's Group - Experimental support to different laboratory members in ongoing projects on the fields of molecular biology and biochemistry University of Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
2014/09 - 2014/11 Intern in Dr. Katja Jaeger's Group - Experimental support to laboratory members in ongoing projects on the fields of molecular biology, genetics and histology University of Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
2014/06 - 2014/08 Summer Intern in Dr. Philip Wigge's Group - H2A.Z histone variant containing nucleosomes and its relationship with temperature perception University of Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
Xunta de Galicia, Spain
2012/12 - 2013/06 Undergraduate Student in the Plant Physiology Department Universidade da Coruña Facultade de Ciencias, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016/01 - Current Contribution of alternative splicing and chromatin dynamics to the stress tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana
PD/BD/114348/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/03 - Current Translational regulation of a plant heavy metal transporter by Open Reading Frames (uORFs)
PTDC/ASP-PLA/6105/2020
Other
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/10 - Current Role of alternative splicing in cell expansion and plant growth under abiotic stress
PTDC/BIA-BID/30608/2017
Other
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/06 - Current Posttranscriptional regulation of ABA-dependent stress responses during early plant development
PTDC/BIA-FBT/31018/2017
Other
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/07 - 2019/12 Alternative splicing and SR proteins in ABA-mediated stress responses
PTDC/BIA-PLA/1084/2014
Other
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Albuquerque-Martins, Rui; Díez, Alba Rodríguez; Szakonyi, Dóra; Duque, Paula. "Assessing Postgermination Development in Arabidopsis thaliana Under Abiotic Stress". In Environmental Responses in Plants, 207-215. New York, United States: Humana, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-1-0716-2297-1_14
  2. Alba Rodríguez Díez; Paula Duque; Rossana Henriques. "Assessing Abscisic Acid-Mediated Changes in Stomatal Aperture Through High-Quality Leaf Impressions". 217-227. Springer {US, 2022.
    10.1007/978-1-0716-2297-1_15
Conference abstract
  1. Díez, Alba R.. "Oral presentation - ABA-induced gene expression and splicing responses in two Arabidopsis thaliana natural variants with different sensitivities to the hormone". Paper presented in XVIII Portuguese Spanish Congress of Plant Biology - Iberian Plant Biology 2023, Braga, 2023.
  2. Díez, Alba R.. "Flash Talk - Alternative Splicing and Natural Variance in Arabidopsis thaliana abscisic acid sensitivity". Paper presented in 2nd PhD Meeting in Plant Science, Vigo, 2021.
  3. Díez, Alba R.. "Loss of function of an arabidopsis ortholog of the mammalian MRG15 adaptor protein connecting splicing to chromatin leads to defective abscisic acid signaling". Paper presented in Plant Biology Europe 2021, Turin, 2021.
  4. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Pecha Kucha talk - Alternative splicing regulation of stress responses in arabidopsis - a link to chromatin?". Paper presented in Society for Experimental Biology 2019 Annual Meeting, Seville, 2019.
  5. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Oral Presentation - Exploring natural variance in arabidopsis ABA sensitivity to unravel the role of alternative splicing and chromatin in plant stress tolerance". Paper presented in Young People in Plant Science Session - 16th Hispano-Portuguese Congress in Plant Physiology, Pamplona, 2019.
  6. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Oral Presentation - Exploring natural variance in arabidopsis ABA sensitivity to unravel the role of alternative splicing in adaptation to stress (Best oral communication)". Paper presented in 1st PhD Meeting in Plant Science, Pamplona, 2019.
  7. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Oral Presentation - Crosstalk between alternative splicing and chromatin in the regulation of abiotic stress responses (Runner-up best oral communication)". Paper presented in 13th Annual Meeting of Gulbenkian PhD Students, Azores, 2019.
Conference poster
  1. Díez, Alba R.. "Alternative Splicing and Natural Variance Sensitivity in Arabidopsis thaliana Abscisic Acid Sensitivity". Paper presented in 17th Hispano-Portuguese Congress in Plant Biology, 2021.
  2. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Alternative splicing regulation of stress responses in arabidopsis - a link to chromatin?". Paper presented in Society for Experimental Biology 2019 Annual Meeting, Seville, Spain, 2019.
  3. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Using natural variance in arabidopsis to explore the role of alternative splicing and chromatin dynamics in plant stress tolerance". Paper presented in Ciência 2019 - Science and Technology in Portugal Summit, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019.
  4. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Exploring natural variance in arabidopsis ABA sensitivity to unravel the role of alternative splicing and chromatin in plant stress tolerance". Paper presented in 16th Hispano-Portuguese Congress of Plant Physiology, Pamplona, Spain, 2019.
  5. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Exploring natural variance in arabidopsis ABA sensitivity to unravel the role of alternative splicing in plant stress tolerance". Paper presented in 1st PhD Meeting in Plant Science, Pamplona, Spain, 2019.
  6. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "The link between alternative splicing and chromatin in the regulation of plant stress responses (Best poster)". Paper presented in 8th National RNA Meeting, Porto, Portugal, 2019.
  7. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Contribution of alternative splicing and chromatin dynamics to the stress tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana". Paper presented in 12th Annual Meeting of Gulbenkian Students, 2018.
  8. Díez, Alba R.; Duque, Paula. "Contribution of alternative splicing and chromatin dynamics to the stress tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana". Paper presented in IGC Symposium 2017: Plant RNA Biology, 2017.
  9. Díez, Alba R.; Brestovitsky, Anna; Wigge, Philip. "The structural basis for the unique properties of H2A.Z". Paper presented in University of Cambridge Plant Science Department Summer Interns Poster Session, 2014.
Journal article
  1. Díez, Alba R.; Szakonyi, Dóra; Lozano-Juste, Jorge; Duque, Paula. "Alternative splicing as a driver of natural variation in abscisic acid response". The Plant Journal (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16773.
    Open access • Published • 10.1111/tpj.16773
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Díez, Alba. "Análisis biogeográfico de las especies sudafricanas del genero "Anthoxanthum L."". Degree, Universidade da Coruña, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2183/11609.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07 ABA-induced gene expression and splicing responses in two Arabidopsis thaliana natural variants with different sensitivities to the hormone Iberian Plant Biology Congress 2023
(Braga, Portugal)
2021/07 Alternative Splicing and Natural Variance in Arabidopsis thaliana Abscisic Acid Sensitivity (Best Flash Talk) 2nd PhD Meeting in Plant Science
(Vigo, Spain)
2021/06 Loss of function of an arabidopsis ortholog of the mammalian MRG15 adaptor protein connecting splicing to chromatin leads to defective abscisic acid signaling Plant Biology Europe 2021
2019/07/02 Alternative splicing regulation of stress responses in arabidopsis - a link to chromatin? Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting
Society for Experimental Biology (Sevilla, Spain)
2019/06/26 Exploring natural variance in arabidopsis ABA sensitivity to unravel the role of alternative splicing and chromatin in plant stress tolerance Young People in Plant Science Session - 16th Hispano-Portuguese Congress of Plant Physiology
Spanish Society of Plant Physiology (Pamplona, Spain)
2019/06/25 Exploring natural variance in arabidopsis ABA sensitivity to unravel the role of alternative splicing in adaptation to stress (Best oral presentation) 1st PhD Meeting in Plant Science - FV 2019 Satellite Meeting
Spanish Society of Plant Physiology (Pamplona, Spain)
2019/03/13 Crosstalk between alternative splicing and chromatin in the regulation of abiotic stress responses (Runner-up best oral presentation) 13th Annual Meeting of Gulbenkian Students
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Azores, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2017/05/28 - 2017/05/31 11th Annual Meeting of Gulbenkian PhD Students (2017 - 2017)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/07/25 - 2019/07/25 Job Shadowing Programme
Workshop
 Outreach
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018/07/26 - 2018/07/26 IGC Undergraduate Summer School
Workshop
 Post-transcriptional regulation of plants responses to environmental stress
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2015/07/16 - 2015/07/16 Festival of Plants
Exhibition
 Outreach
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2015/07/10 - 2015/07/10 Careers Day in Plant Sciences
Workshop
 Outreach
University of Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
2015/03/14 - 2015/03/14 Cambridge Science Festival
Exhibition
 Outreach
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2015/03/06 - 2015/03/06 Science Festival School Road Show
Workshop
 Outreach
University of Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
2014/10/18 - 2014/10/18 Cambridge Big Biology Day
Exhibition
 Outreach
Hills Road Sixth Form College, United Kingdom
2014/08/14 - 2014/08/14 Sutton Trust Summer School
Workshop
 Outreach
University of Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
2011/05/07 - 2011/05/07 Science on the Street Day
Exhibition
 Outreach
Universidade da Coruña Facultade de Ciencias, Spain

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019 - Current Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Member
2019 - Current Spanish Society of Plant Physiology "Sociedad Española de Fisiología Vegetal" (SEFV) Member
2019 - Current Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology Member
Distinctions

Award

2021 Best Flash Talk - 2nd PhD Meeting in Plant Science (Vigo, SP)
Spanish Society of Plant Physiology, Spain
2021 Travel Grant - 17th Hispano-Portugues Congress in Plant Biology
Spanish Society of Plant Physiology, Spain
2019 Best Oral Communication - 1st PhD Meeting in Plant Science (Pamplona, SP)
2019 Runner-up Best Oral Communication - Annual Meeting of Gulbenkian PhD Students (Azores, PT)
2019 Travel Grant - 16th Hispano-Portuguese Congress of Plant Physiology
2018 Best Poster - 8th National RNA Meeting (Porto, PT)
2018 Travel Grant - 8th National RNA Meeting (Porto, PT)
2016 PhD Fellowship (SFRH/ PD/BD/114348/2016)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2014 Galeuropa Internship Programme - Summer Internship at University of Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory (Cambridge, UK)
Xunta de Galicia, Spain