Pere Puigdomènech#
| Membership Number: | 1110 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cragenomica.es/staff/detail/pere-puigdomenech |
Present and Previous Positions
Current Position:
- Profesor de Investigación. CSIC
- Director. Centre of Research in Agricultural Genomics. Consorcio CSIC-IRTA-UAB
- Coordinator. Consolider project (CSIC, IRTA, UAB, UB, UdL) on genomics of agricultural application.
- Coordinator. Melonomics Project. Project funded by Fundación Genoma España, industries and regional governments for the sequence of the melon genome and development of other genomic tools in this species.
Former Positions:
- Director of Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC (1998-2002)
- Director of Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo, CSIC (1992-1998)
- Vice-Director of Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo, CSIC (1986-1992)
- Investigador científico. CSIC. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo. Barcelona
- Colaborador científico. CSIC. Instituto de Biología de Barcelona.
- Research Associate. Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin
- Profesor Adjunto, Departamento de Bioquímica. Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona
- Postdoctoral fellow. Biophysics Unit. Portsmouth Polytechnic
- Postgraduate student. CNRS, Montpellier
Fields of Scholarship
- Plant molecular biology
- Molecular mechanisms involved in plant development and on plant genomics
Honours and Awards
- Member of Academia Europaea and EMBO
- Member of the EU-US Consultative Group on Biotechnology (2000)
- Member of the Expert Group on Biology and Society, European Science Foundation (2000)
- Member of the European Group on Ethics of Sciences and New Technologies
- Member of the Spanish Committees on Biosafety and on TSEs
- President of the Societat Catalana de Biologia
