Formación académica

• Doctor of Philosophy, 1992. Oregon State University, U.S.A.
• Magister Scientiae en Producción Vegetal, 1989. Facultad de Agronomía - Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• Ingeniero Agrónomo, Orientación Fitotecnia, 1984. Facultad de Agronomía - Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Premios y distinciones

• "Guggenheim Fellow" (2001). J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, NY, USA.
• "Líderes Latinoamericanos para el Nuevo Milenio" (1999).Distinción otorgada por la cadena CNN y la revista TIME, USA.
• "Premio Nacional al Mérito Agropecuario" (1999), premio otorgado por el diario La Opinión de Rafaela.
• "Eduardo P. D. De Robertis" (1994), premio otorgado por la Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología (SECyT), Argentina.
• "Cristóbal Hicken" (1994), premio otorgado por la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Argentina.
• "Bernardo Houssay" (1987), premio otorgado por el Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina.
• "Vilfrid Baron" (bienio 1984-5), premio otorgado por la Academia Nacional de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Argentina.
• "Bolsa de Cereales de Buenos Aires" (1984), premio otorgado por la Fundación Facultad de Agronomía.

Cargos

• Investigador Principal (CONICET-IFEVA).
• Profesor Asociado (Facultad de Agronomía-UBA).
• Miembro del "Environmental Effects Panel", United Nations Environment Programme. Naciones Unidas.
• Editor, Oecologia (Springer), Plant Signaling and Behavior (Landes Biosciences).
• Cargos anteriores: Miembro, Comisión asesora (Gran Área Cs. Biolícas y de la Salud, CONICET) 2000-2002; Monitoring Editor, Plant Physiology (ASPP, Rockville, MD, USA), 2000-2005.

Áreas de interés en investigación

• Ecología molecular. Fotobiologia de plantas. Biología molecular de plantas. Interacciones bióticas.

Cursos dictados en la Facultad de Agronomía (UBA)

• Interacción planta-insecto. Bases moleculares e implicancias agronómicas y productivas.

Miembros del laboratorio

• Estudiantes graduados y post-docs (PD) con progrmas finalizados: Fernando Caccia, Cecilia Rousseaux (PD), Carlos Mazza, Carla Giordano, Miriam Izaguirre, Carla Caputo (PD), Silvia DeSimone (PD), Javier Moreno.
• Estudiantes graduados co-supervisados con progrmas finalizados: Jprge Zavala, Verónica Pancotto.
• Tesis doctorales en curso: Patricia Demkura, Mercedes Keller

Publicaciones (últimos 5 años)

• 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.

Lista total de publicaciones

Campo de investigación IFEVA

• Control del crecimiento y desarrollo de plantas por la luz
• Ecofisiología del estrés y las interacciones bióticas
• Análisis de la heterogeneidad regional y de los cambios globales