Research Group
Research Overview
Humberto is a Research Associate in Professor Beverley Glover's Evolution and Development group. He is interested in understanding the formation of iridescent colours produced by the periodic ordering of nanoscale structures in the petals.
He completed his Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology at UGA-Cinvestav in Mexico, where he studied the molecular mechanisms controlling carpel and fruit development in Arabidopsis and constructed and characterized a protein interaction network of transcription factors involved in carpel patterning.
Areas of expertise: Flower and fruit development, patterning, gene regulatory networks, transcription factors, cell wall, cuticles.
Previous positions
2019 - 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Genomics Unit. Center for Research and Advanced Studies (UGA-Cinvestav). Irapuato, Mexico.
Qualifications
2018 PhD Plant Biotechnology, Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav-IPN), Irapuato, México
2012 MSc Plant Biotechnology, Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav-IPN), Irapuato, México
2010 BSc Agronomy, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo. Texcoco, México
Key publications
The protein-protein interaction landscape of transcription factors during gynoecium development in Arabidopsis. (2023). Molecular Plant https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.09.004
Gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis (2022), Development https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200120
SEEDSTICK Controls Arabidopsis Fruit Size by Regulating Cytokinin Levels and FRUITFULL (2022), Cell Reports https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.101
New roles of NO TRANSMITTING TRACT and SEEDSTICK during medial domain development in Arabidopsis fruits (2019), Development https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.172395
The bHLH transcription factor SPATULA enables cytokinin signaling, and both activate auxin biosynthesis and transport genes at the medial domain of the gynoecium (2017), PLoS Genetics https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006726
All publications
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=mK3rTM0AAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID
Online archive at American Society of Plant Biologists
