Araceli Castillo Garriga

Professor
Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology
Universidad de Malaga
Spain

Professor Genetics
Biography

Araceli Castillo Garriga (Araceli G. Castillo), holds a degree and doctorate (2002) in Biological Sciences from the University of Málaga. Assistant Professor Doctor in 2008 and Professor Doctor Hired since June 2010 in the Genetics Area. Su carrera científica se ha completado con estancias en la North Carolina State University (Raleigh, EEUU; 2001), en Clare Hall Laboratories- Canver Research UK, (Londres, Reino Unido; 2004) y en el Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Biology- University of Edinburgh (Edimburgo, Reino Unido, 2004-2008, 2011).

Research Intrest

Epigenetic modifications that occur in the pathogen-plant interaction.

List of Publications
Choi ES, Strålfors A, Castillo AG, Durand-Dubief M, Ekwall K, Allshire RC. Identification of noncoding transcripts from within CENP-A chromatin at fission yeast centromeres. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2011 Jul 1;286(26):23600-7.
Lakhssassi N, Doblas VG, Rosado A, del Valle AE, Posé D, Jimenez AJ, Castillo AG, Valpuesta V, Borsani O, Botella MA. The Arabidopsis tetratricopeptide thioredoxin-like gene family is required for osmotic stress tolerance and male sporogenesis. Plant physiology. 2012 Mar 1;158(3):1252-66.
Choi ES, Strålfors A, Catania S, Castillo AG, Svensson JP, Pidoux AL, Ekwall K, Allshire RC. Factors that promote H3 chromatin integrity during transcription prevent promiscuous deposition of CENP-ACnp1 in fission yeast. PLoS genetics. 2012 Sep 20;8(9):e1002985.
Rodríguez‐Negrete E, Lozano‐Durán R, Piedra‐Aguilera A, Cruzado L, Bejarano ER, Castillo AG. Geminivirus Rep protein interferes with the plant DNA methylation machinery and suppresses transcriptional gene silencing. New Phytologist. 2013 Jul 1;199(2):464-75.
Castillo AG, Pidoux AL, Catania S, Durand-Dubief M, Choi ES, Hamilton G, Ekwall K, Allshire RC. Telomeric Repeats Facilitate CENP-ACnp1 Incorporation via Telomere Binding Proteins. PloS one. 2013 Jul 31;8(7):e69673.