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Paul Christou Investigador ICREA Universitat de Lleida Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal +34 973 702831(Telèfon) +34 973 702690(Fax) paul.christou@pvcf.cat Pàgina web personal: http://www.icrea.es Despatx:Edifici Principal A Formació Acadèmica Llicenciat en Ciències, Universitad de Londres, Chelsea College, UK, 1977 Doctorat, Universitat de Londres, University College, UK, 1980 Experiència Professional · 2004-actualitad, Investigador ICREA, Universitat de Lleida · 2001-2004, Profesor, Fraunhofer Institute of Molecular Biotechnology and Applied Ecology, Schmallenberg, Aachen, Alemania · 1998 – 1994, Profesor i Responsable de l'Unitad de Biotecnología, John Innes Centre, UK Recerca · Biotecnologia aplicada a la obtención de cereales resistentes al estrés abiótico como sequía y salinidad. Docència · Biotecnología Vegetal Publicacions Recents · Yang Q, Li Q, Shi L, Wang X, Sandmann G, Christou P, Capell T, Zhu C. 2009. Molecular regulation and biotechnology of carotenoid accumulation in flowers. Journal of Biotechnology (en premsa) · Zhu C, Naqvi S, Breitenbach J, Sandmann G, Christou P, Capell T. 2009. Metabolic engineering of maize carotenoid content through combinatorial genetic transformation. Journal of Biotechnology (en premsa) · Ramessar K, Naqvi S, Dashevskaya S, Peremarti A, Yuan D, Gomez S, Rivera S, Farre G, Sabalza M, Miralpeix B, Twyman RM, Zhu C, Bassie L, Capell T, Christou P. 2009. The Contribution of Plant Biotechnology to Food Security in the 21st Century, Nova Science Publishers, Inc, New York (en premsa) · Naqvi S, Zhu C, Farre G, Bassie L, Ramessar K, Breitenbach J, Perez Conesa D, Ros Berruezo G, Sandmann G, Capell T and Christou P. 2009. Transgenic multivitamin corn through biofortification of endosperm with three vitamins representing three distinct metabolic pathways, PNAS 106(19):7762-7767 · Ramessar K, Capell T, Twyman RM, Quemada H and Christou P. 2009. Calling the tunes on transgenic crops: the case for regulatory harmony, Mol Breeding 23:99–112 · Ramessar K, Sabalza M, Capell T, Christou P. 2008. Maize plants: an ideal production platform for effective and safe molecular pharming. Plant Science 174(4):409-419 · Ramessar K, Capell T, Twyman RM, Quemada H, Christou P. 2008. Trace and traceability a call for regulatory harmony. Nature Biotechnology 26:975-978 · Ramessar K, Rademacher T, Sack M, Stadlmann J, Platis D, Stiegler G, Labrou N, Altmann F, Ma J, Stöger E, Capell T, Christou P. 2008. ost-effective production of a vaginal protein microbicide to prevent HIV transmission. PNAS of USA 105(10):3727-3732 · Ramessar,K., Capell, T., Christou, P. 2008. olecular pharming in cereal crops. Phytochemical reviews 7:579-582 · Zhu C, Naqvi S, Breitenbach J, Sandmann G., Christou P., Capell T. 2008. Reconstruction and extension of the carotenoid pathway in maize through combinatorial nuclear transformation. Carotenoid Science 12:61-62 · Zhu C, Naqvi S, Breitenbach G, Sandmann J, Christou P, Capell T. 2008. Combinatorial genetic transformation generates a library of metabolic phenotypes for the carotenoid pathway in maize. PNAS of USA 105:18232-18237 · Bassie, L., Zhu, C., Romagosa, I., Christou, P., Capell, T. 2008. Species-dependent plasticity of the polyamine biosynthetic pathway in transgenic wheat expressing an oat arginine decarboxylase (adc) cDNA. Molecular Breeding 22:39-50 · Capell, T., Zhu,C., Bassie, L., Peremarti, A., Naqvi, S., Ramessar, R., Gomez, G., Christou, P. 2007. Background, Current Status and Future Prospects of Transgenic Crop Plant Development. Contributions to Science 3(4):531-538 · Zhu, Ch., Navqvi, S., Gomez-Galera, S., Pelacho, A.M., Capell, T., Christou, P. 2007. Transgenic Strategies for the nutritional enhancement of plants. Trends in Plant Sciences 12: 548-555 · Gómez-Galera, S., Pelacho, A.M., Gené, A., Capell, T., Christou, P. 2007. The Genetic Manipulation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Plant Cell Reports 26: 1689-1715 · Ramessar, K., Peremarti, A., Gomez-Galera, S., Naqvi, S., Moralejo, M., Muñoz, M., Capell, T., Christou, P. 2007. Biosafety and risk assessment framework for selectable marker genes in transgenic crop plants. A case of the science not supporting the politics. Transgenic Research 16:261-280 · Kohli, A., Gonzales-Melendi, P., Abranches, R., Capell, T., Stoger E., Christou, P. 2006. The quest to understand the basis and mechanisms that control expression of introduced transgenes in crop plants. Plant Signal & Behavior 1:185-195 · Drakakaki, G., Marcel, S., Arcalis, E., Altmann, F., Gonzalez-Melendi, P., Fischer, R., Christou, P., Stoger, E. 2006. The intracellular fate of a recombinant protein is tissue-dependent. Plant Physiol 141:578-586 · Christou, P., Capell, T., Kohli, A., Gatehouse, J.A., Gatehouse, A.M.R. 2006. Recent developments and future prospects in insect pest control in transgenic crops. Trends in Plant Sci 11: 302-308 · Ferry, N., Edwards, M.G., Gatehouse, J., Capell, T., Christou, P., Gatehouse, A.M.R. 2006. Transgenic Plants for Insect Pest Control. A Forward Looking Scientific Perspective. Transgenic Research 15: 13-19 · Van Enckevort, L.J.G., Greco, R., Droc, G., Gagneur, C., Piffanelli, P., González, V.M., Cabot, P., Fornara, F., Berri, S., Lan, P., Rafel, M., Capell, T., Puigdomènech, P., Ouwerkerk, P.B.F., Meijer, A.H., Pe’, E., Colombo, L., Christou, P., Guiderdoni, E., Pereira, A. 2005. EU-OSTID: European Oryza sativa Transposon Insertional Database. Plant Mol. Biol. 59:99-110 · Agrawal,P.K., Kohli, A., Twyman, R.M., Christou, P. 2005. Transformation of plants with multiple cassettes generates simple transgene integration patterns and high expression levels. Mol Breeding 16: 247-260. · Drakakaki, G., Marcel, S., Glahn,R.P., Lund, L., Periagh, S., Fischer, R., Christou, P., Stoger, E. 2005. Endosperm specific co-expression of recombinant soybean ferritin and Aspergillus phytase in maize results in significant increases in the levels of bioavailable iron. Plant Mol. Biol 59:869-880 · Christou, P. 2005. Sustainable and durable insect pest resistance in transgenic crops. Information Systems for Biotechnology News Report. Agriculture and Environmental Biotechnology. August, 6-8. · Stoger, E., Sack, M., Nicholson, L., Fischer, R., Christou, P. 2005. Recent Progress in Plantibody Technology. Journal of Current Pharmaceutical Design 11: 2439-2457. · Ma, J.K-C., Barros, E., Bock, R., Christou, P., Dale, P.J., Dix, P.J., Fischer, R., Irwin, J., Mahoney, R., Pezzotti, M., Schillberg, S., Sparrow, P., Stoger, E., Twyman, R.M. 2005. The production of pharmaceutical proteins in transgenic plants - current perspectives. EMBO Reports 6: 593-599 · Altpeter, F., Baisakh, N., Beachy, R., Bock, R., Capell, T., Christou, P., Daniell, H., Datta, S., Dix, P.J., Fauquet, C., Huang, N., Kohli, A., Mooibroek, H., Nicholson, L., Nguyen, T.T., Nugent, G., Raemakers, K., Romano, A., Somers, A.D., Stoger, E., Taylor, N., Visser, R. 2005. Particle bombardment and the genetic enhancement of crops: Myths and realities. Molecular Breeding 15:305-327 · Wegel, E., Vallejos, R., Christou, P., Stoger, E., Shaw, P. 2005. Large scale chromatin decondensation induced in a developmentally activated transgene locus. Journal of Cell Science 118: 1021-1031 · Arcalis, E., Marcel, S., Altmann, F., Drakakaki, G., Fischer, R., Christou, P., Stoger, E. 2004. Unexpected deposition patterns of recombinant proteins in post-ER compartments of wheat endosperm. Plant Physiol. 136, 3457-3466 · Kohli, A., Prynne, M.Q., Miro, B., Pereira, A., Twyman, R.M., Capell, T., Christou, P. 2004. Dedifferentiation-mediated changes in transposition behavior make the Activator transposon an ideal tool for functional genomics in rice. Molecular Breeding 13: 177-191 · Fiume, E., Christou, P., Giani, Silvia, Breviario, D. 2004. Introns are key regulatory elements of rice tubuline expression. Planta 218: 693-703 · Fischer, R., Stöger, E., Schillberg, S., Christou, P., Twyman, R. 2004. Plant-based production of biopharmaceuticals. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 7: 1-7