Encarnación Martínez-Salas - Curriculum vitae#
E. Martinez-Salas has proven expertise on RNA Biology. Her laboratory has played a leadership role in the fields of translation control, RNA viruses, RNA structure and RNA-protein interaction. Her current publication track record has 106 articles (PubMed), 3 patents, and 22 book chapters.
She has pioneered discoveries on the role of long-range interactions in picornavirus IRES elements, the identification of the leader protease of FMDV target sequence in key host factors connected to translation control and innate immunity, and the role of Gemin5 in selective translation control.
She has secured funding as PI from competitive sources since 1995 (24 grants). Coordinator of Research Projects: 3.
More than 24 PhD/postdocs trained, 8 running their own laboratories in academia/industry in Spain and abroad.
Track record = over 109 publications in leading journals
(PubMed
)H index 50; 6812 total citations
(https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=joZeeocAAAAJ&hl=es
)Invited speaker / conferences (most recent)
- 2019 Plenary Lecture Alberto Sols conference. PABMB/SAIB 2019, Salta. Argentina
- 2017 Chairman nomination. Protein synthesis and translation control, Heidelberg, Germany
- 2014 Plenary Lecture, Severo Ochoa conference, XXXVII SBBM. Puerto Varas, Chile
- 2014 TSRC workshop Challenges in RNA Structural Modeling and Design, Telluride, CO.
- 2014 Invited Lecture, Summer School Computational Methods for RNA, Boston, MA
Editorial board member: Virology (2013-); Frontiers in Microbiology (2013-); Peer J (2013 - 2020); Virus Research (2016-), Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Virus-Host (2018-), IJMS (2020-).
ad hoc reviewer for scientific journals within the Molecular Biology field (>25) and International Funding Agencies (>10).
Review panel: Dep. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Univ Texas Medical Branch, Galveston USA; MRC Unit, Leicester, UK
Member of committees for funding agencies: France: ANR - CE10, CE12; Spain: MINECO – ANEP
