Cayo Ramos Rodríguez

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

Professor Genetics
Biography

Cayo Ramos has a degree (1985) and Doctor (1990) in Biology from the University of Seville. Full Professor in 2000 and Professor of Genetics since 2011, belonging to the Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology of the University of Málaga (UMA). His scientific career has been completed as postdoctoral researcher EMBO (1995), EU Marie Curie Fellow (1997) and Associate Professor of Research (1997-2000) in the Department of Microbiology at the Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby). Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) and the European Union (1994 to 1997) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants (Zaidín Experimental Station, CSIC, Granada). As a MEC postdoctoral fellow and researcher (1990-1993) at the Department of Yeast Genetics (The Carlsberg Laboratories, Copenhagen, Denmark).

Research Intrest

Control of Plant Diseases, tuberculosis of the olive tree, caused by Pseudomonas savastanoi, and the biological control with bacterial agents of the avocado white root rot, caused by the fungus Rosellinia necatrix

List of Publications
Ramos C, Matas IM, Bardaji L, Aragón IM, Murillo J. Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi: some like it knot. Molecular plant pathology. 2012 Dec 1;13(9):998-1009.
Matas IM, Lambertsen L, Rodríguez‐Moreno L, Ramos C. Identification of novel virulence genes and metabolic pathways required for full fitness of Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi in olive (Olea europaea) knots. New Phytologist. 2012 Dec 1;196(4):1182-96.
Matas IM, Castañeda-Ojeda MP, Aragón IM, Antúnez-Lamas M, Murillo J, Rodríguez-Palenzuela P, López-Solanilla E, Ramos C. Translocation and functional analysis of Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi NCPPB 3335 type III secretion system effectors reveals two novel effector families of the Pseudomonas syringae complex. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 2014 May;27(5):424-36.
Aragón IM, Pérez‐Mendoza D, Gallegos MT, Ramos C. The c‐di‐GMP phosphodiesterase BifA is involved in the virulence of bacteria from the Pseudomonas syringae complex. Molecular plant pathology. 2015 Aug 1;16(6):604-15.
Aragon IM, Pérez‐Mendoza D, Moscoso JA, Faure E, Guery B, Gallegos MT, Filloux A, Ramos C. Diguanylate cyclase DgcP is involved in plant and human Pseudomonas spp. infections. Environmental microbiology. 2015 Nov 1;17(11):4332-51.