Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, 1992. Oregon State University,
U.S.A.
- Magister Scientiae, Crop Production, 1989. Facultad de
Agronomía - Universidad de Buenos Aires.
- Ingeniero Agrónomo, 1984. Facultad de
Agronomía - Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Honors
- "Guggenheim Fellow" (2001). J. S. Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, NY, USA.
- "Latin America Leaders for the New Millennium " (1999).
Distinguished by the CNN Network and TIME Magazine,
USA.
- "Premio Nacional al Mérito Agropecuario" (1999).
Awarded by La Opinión Newspaper, Rafaela,
Argentina.
- "Eduardo P. D. De Robertis" Prize (1994). Awarded by the
Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología (SECyT),
Argentina.
- "Cristóbal Hicken" Price (1994). Awarded by the
Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y
Naturales, Argentina.
- "Bernardo Houssay" Price (1987). Awarded by the Consejo
de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
(CONICET), Argentina.
- "Vilfrid Baron" Price (1984-5), Awarded by the Academia
Nacional de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Argentina.
- "Bolsa de Cereales de Buenos Aires " Price (1984),
Awarded by the Fundación Facultad de
Agronomía.
Positions
- Principal Research Scientist (CONICET-IFEVA).
- Associate Professor (School of Agronomy-UBA).
- Member "Environmental Effects Panel ", United
Nations Environment Programme. United Nations.
- Editor: Oecologia (Springer) and Plant
Signaling and Behavior (Landes Biosciences).
- Former positions: Member, Biology Board (CONICET)
2000-2002; Monitoring Editor, Plant Physiology
(ASPP, Rockville, MD, USA), 2000-2005.
Professional interests
- Molecular Ecology. Plant Biology. Photobiology. Biotic
interactions.
Courses taught at the School of Agronomy (UBA)
- Plant-insect interactions: Molecular mechanisms and
ecological implications.
Lab members
- Past Graduate Students and post-docs (PD): Fernando
Caccia, Cecilia Rousseaux (PD), Carlos Mazza, Carla
Giordano, Miriam Izaguirre, Carla Caputo (PD), Silvia
DeSimone (PD), Javier Moreno.
- Past Co-supervised Graduate Students: Jprge Zavala,
Verónica Pancotto.
- Graduate theses in progress: Patricia Demkura, Mercedes
Keller.
Publications (last 5 years)
- Ballaré CL (2009) Illuminated
behavior. Phytochrome as a key regulator of light foraging
and plant anti-herbivore defense. Plant, Cell and
Environment, in press.
- Andrady A., Aucamp PJ, Bais AF, Ballaré
CL, Bjorn LO, Bornman JF, Caldwell MM, Cullen AP,
Erickson DJ, De Gruijl FF, Häder DP, Ilyas M,
Kulandaivelu G, Kumar HD, Longstreth J, McKenzie RL, Norval
M, Redhwi HH, Smith RC, Solomon KR, Sulzberger B, Takizawa
Y, Tang X, Teramura AH, Torikai A, van der Leun JC, Wilson
SR, Worrest RC, and Zepp RG. (2009) Environmental effects
of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate
change: Progress report 2008. Photochemical and
Photobiological Sciences, in press.
- Flint SD, Ballaré CL, Caldwell
MM, McKenzie RL (2008), Comment on “Extreme
environments in the forests of Ushuaia, Argentina” by
Hector D'Antoni et al., Geophysical Research Letters 35,
L13710, doi:10.1029/2008GL033570.
- Tao Y, Ferrer J-L, Pojer F, Hong F, Ljung K, Long JA, Li
L, Moreno JE, Bowman ME, Ivans LJ, Lim J,
Ballaré CL, Sandberg G, Noel JP,
Chory J (2008) Rapid synthesis of auxin via a new
tryptophan-dependent pathway is required for shade
avoidance in plants. Cell 133: 164-176.
- Andrady, A., P. J. Aucamp, A. F. Bais, C. L.
Ballaré, L. I. Bjorn, J. F. Bornman, M. M.
Caldwell, A. P. Cullen, D. J. Erickson, F. F. De Gruijl, D.
P. Häder, M. Ilyas, G. Kulandaivelu, H. D. Kumar, J.
Longstreth, R. L. McKenzie, M. Norval, H. H. Redhwi, R. C.
Smith, K. R. Solomon, B. Sulzberger, Y. Takizawa, X. Tang,
A. H. Teramura, A. Torikai, J. C. van der Leun, S. R.
Wilson, R. C. Worrest, and R. G. Zepp. (2008) Environmental
effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with
climate change: Progress report 2007. Photochemical and
Photobiological Sciences, 7: 15-27.
- Caldwell MM; Bornman JF; Ballaré
CL; Flint SD. (2007). Terrestrial ecosystems,
increased solar ultraviolet radiation and interactions with
other climatic change factors. Photochemical and
Photobiological Sciences 6:252-266
- Izaguirre MM; Mazza CA; Svatoš AT; Baldwin
IT;Ballaré CL. (2007). Solar
ultraviolet-B radiation and insect herbivory trigger
partially overlapping phenolic responses in Nicotiana
attenuata and Nicotiana longiflora. Annals of
Botany 99:103-109
- Andrady A; Aucamp PJ; Bais AF; Ballaré
CL; Bjorn LI; Bornman JF; Caldwell MM; Cullen AP;
Erickson DJ; De Gruijl FF; Häder DP; Ilyas M;
Kulandaivelu G; Kumar HD; Longstreth J; McKenzie RL; Norval
M; Redhwi HH; Smith RC; Solomon KR; Sulzberger B; Takizawa
Y; Tang X; Teramura AH; Torikai A; van der Leun JC; Wilson
SR; Worrest RC; Zepp RG. (2006). Environmental effects of
ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change:
Progress report 2005. Photochemical and Photobiological
Sciences, 5:13-24.
- Caputo C; Rutitzky M; Ballaré CL.
(2006). Solar ultraviolet-B radiation alters the
attractiveness of Arabidopsis plants to diamondback moths
(Plutella xylostella L.): impacts on oviposition
and involvement of the jasmonic acid pathway. Oecologia:
149:81-90.
- Izaguirre MM; Mazza CA; Biondini M; Baldwin IT;
Ballaré CL. (2006). Remote sensing
of future competitors: impacts on plant defenses.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
103:7170-7174.
- Andrady, A; Aucamp, PJ; Bais, AF; Ballaré,
CL; Bjorn, LI; Bornman, JF; Caldwell, MM;
Callaghan, T; Cullen, AP; Erickson, DJ; De Gruijl, FF;
Hader, DP; Ilyas, M; Kulandaivelu, G; Kumar, HD;
Longstreth, J; McKEnzie, RL; Norval, M; Redhwi, HH; Smith,
RC; Solomon, KR; Sulzberger, B; Takizawa, Y; Tang, X;
Teramura, AH; Torikai, A; van der Leun, JC; Wilson, SR;
Worrest, RC; Zepp, RG. (2005). Environmental effects of
ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change:
Progress report 2004. Photochemical and Photobiological
Sciences, 22: 177-184.
- Giordano CV, Galatro A., Puntarulo S.,
Ballaré CL (2004). The inhibitory
effects of UV-B radiation (280-315 nm) on Gunnera
magellanica growth correlate with increased DNA damage
but not with oxidative damage to lipids, Plant Cell &
Environment, 27: 1415-1423.
- Robson TM, Pancotto VA, Ballaré
CL, Sala OE, Scopel AL, Caldwell MM (2004).
Reduction of solar UV-B mediates changes in the
Sphagnum capitulum microenvironment and the
peatland microfungal community, Oecologia, 140: 480-490.
- Rousseaux MC, Julkunen-Tiitto R, Searles PS, Scopel AL,
Aphalo PJ, Ballaré CL (2004). Solar
UV-B radiation affects leaf quality and insect herbivory in
the southern beech tree Nothofagus antarctica,
Oecologia, 138: 505-512.
- Ballaré CL (2004). Competition:
Responses to shade by neighbors. In R. M. Goodman (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science. Marcel Dekker,
Inc., NY. Pp. 300-303.
- United Nations Environment Programme, Environmental
Effects Assessment Panel (Andrady A,....
Ballaré CL,.. et al.) (2004).
Environmental effects of ozone depletion and its
interactions with climate change: Progress report 2003.
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 3:1-5.
- Robson TM, Pancotto VA, Flint SD, Ballaré
CL, Sala OE, Scopel AL, Caldwell MM (2003). Six
years of solar UV-B manipulations affect growth of
Sphagnum and vascular plants in a Tierra del Fuego
peatland, New Phytologist, 160: 379-389.
- Giordano CV, Mori T, Sala OE, Scopel AL, Caldwell MM,
Ballaré CL (2003). Functional
acclimation to solar UV-B radiation in Gunnera
magellanica, a native plant species of southernmost
Patagonia, Plant Cell & Environment, 26: 2027-2036.
- Ballaré CL (2003). Stress under
the sun. Spotlight on ultraviolet-B responses Plant
Physiology 132: 1725-1727.
- M.M. Izaguirre, A.L. Scopel, I.T. Baldwin, and
C.L. Ballaré. (2003). Convergent
Responses to Stress.Solar Ultraviolet-B Radiation and
Manduca sexta Herbivory Elicit Overlapping
Transcriptional Responses in Field-Grown Plants of
Nicotiana longiflora. Plant Physiology, 132:
1755-1767.
- Caldwell, M.M., Ballaré, C.L.,
Flint, S.D., Björn, L.O., Teramura, A.H.,
Kulandaivelu, G., Tevini, M. (2003). Terrestrial
ecosystems, increased solar ultravioelet radiation and
interactions with other climatic change factors.
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 2: 29-38.
- Pancotto, V.A., Sala, O.E., Cabello, M., López,
N.I., Robson, T.M., Ballaré, C.L.,
Caldwell, M.M., Scopel, A.L. (2003). Solar UV-B decreases
decomposition in herbaceous plant litter in Tierra del
Fuego, Argentina: Potential role of an altered decomposer
community. Global Change Biology, 9: 1465-1474.
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