Formación

• Ingeniero Agrónomo, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires 1982.
• Magister Scientiae, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires 1987.
• PhD, Universidad de Leicester, Inglaterra, 1989.

Cargos

• Profesor Titular, Investigador Superior (CONICET)

Áreas de interés en investigación

• Bases genéticas y moleculares de la fotomorfogénesis en plantas.
• Genómica funcional.
• Señales fotomorfogénicas en cultivos agrícolas y pasturas, implicancias productivas.

Cursos dictados en la Escuela para Graduados Alberto Soriano (FA-UBA)

• Control del crecimiento y desarrollo en plantas.

Premios y distinciones

• Diploma de la Fundación Konex, 2003.
• Beca de la Fundación Guggenheim, 2002.
• Premio Lorenzo Parodi, 1986-1988, Sociedad Argentina de Botánica.
• Medalla de la Fundación Josefina Prats (2005).

Formación de recursos humanos

• Tesis doctorales finalizadas: Marcelo J. Yanovsky, Maria Agustina Mazzella, Karina A. Oliverio, Hernán Boccalandro, Julieta Mateos, Laura Luccioni, Santiago Trupkin, Romina Sellaro, Elizabeth Karayekov, María A. Crepy.
• Tesis doctorales co-dirigidas finalizadas: Pablo D. Cerdán, Gustavo A. Maddonni, Hernán Ghiglione.
• Tesis doctorales en marcha: Juan Ignacio Cagnola, Martín Krzymuski, Ornella Pucciarello, Marcos Faberio, M. López Pereira (co-director)

Publicaciones (últimos 5 años)

• Sánchez, S. Cagnola, J.I., Crepy, M., Yanovsky, M.J. Casal, J.J. 2011. Balancing forces in the photoperiodic control of flowering. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences. 10: 451 - 460.
• Strasser, B., Sánchez-Lamasa, M., Yanovsky, M.J., Casal, J.J., Cerdán, P.D. 2010. Arabidopsis thaliana life without phytochromes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, 4776-4781
• Finlayson, S.A., Krishnareddy, S. R., Kebrom, T.H., Casal, J.J. 2010. Phytochrome regulation of branching in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 152, 1914-1927
• Ugarte, C.C., Trupkin, S.A., Ghiglione, H., Slafer, G., Casal, J.J. 2010 Low red/far-red ratios delay spike and stem growth in wheat. Journal of Experimental Botany 61, 3151 - 3162.
• Sellaro, R., Crepy, M., Trupkin, S.A., Karayekov, E., Buchovsky, A.S., Rossi, C., Casal, J.J. 2010. Cryptochrome as a sensor of the blue / green ratio of natural radiation in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 154: 401-409.
• Rutitzky, M., Ghiglione, H.O., Cura, J.A., Casal, J.J., Yanovsky, M.J. 2009 Comparative genomic analysis of light-regulated transcripts in the Solanaceae. BMC Genomics 10: 60
• Allakhverdiev, S.I., Casal, J.J., Nagata, T. 2009. Photosynthesis from molecular perspectives: towards future energy production. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 8, 137 - 138.
• Boccalandro, H.E., Rugnone, M.L., Moreno, J.E., Ploschuk, E.L., Serna, L., Yanovsky, M.J., Casal, J.J. 2009. Phytochrome B enhances photosynthesis at the expense of water use efficiency in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 150, 1083-1092.
• Sellaro,R., Hoecker, U., Yanovsky, M., Chory, J., Casal, J.J. 2009. Synergism of red and blue light in the control of Arabidopsis gene expression and development. Current Biology 19, 1216-1220.
• Staneloni, R.J., Rodriguez-Batiller, M.J., Legisa, D., Scarpin, M.R., Agalou, A., Cerdán, P.D., Meijer, A.H., Ouwerkerk, P.N.F, Casal, J.J. 2009. Bell-like homeodomain selectively regulates the high-irradiance response of phytochrome A. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, 13624-13629.
• Staneloni, R.J., Battiller, M.J., Casal, J.J. (2008). Abscisic acid, high-light and oxidative stress down-regulate a photosynthetic gene via a promoter motif not involved in phytochrome-mediated transcriptional regulation. Molecular Plant 1: 75 - 83.
• Boccalandro, H.E., De Simone, S.N., Bergmann-Honsberger, A., Schepens, I., Fankhauser, C., Casal, J.J. (2008).

  PKS1 regulates root phototropism and gravitropism. Plant Physiology 146: 108-115.

• Mazzella, M.A. , Zanor, M.I., Fernie, R.A., Casal, J.J. (2008). Metabolic responses to red / far-red ratio and ontogeny show poor correlation with the growth rate of sunflower stems. Journal of Experimental Botany 59: 2469-2477.
• Schepens, I., Boccalandro, H.E., Kami, C., Casal, J.J. Fankhauser, C. (2008). PHYTOCHROME KINASE SUBSTRATE 4 modulates phytochrome-mediated control of hypocotyl growth orientation. Plant Physiology 147:661-671
• Ghiglione, H., Gonzalez, F., Serrago, R., Maldonado, S., Chilcott, C., Curá, J., Miralles, D., Zhu, T., Casal, J. J. (2008). Autophagy regulated by daylength determines the number of fertile florets in wheat. Plant Journal 55, 1010–1024.
• Buchovsky, A.S., Strasser, B., Cerdán, P.D., Casal, J.J. (2008). Suppression of pleiotropic effects of functional CRYPTOCHROME genes by TERMINAL FLOWER. Genetics 180, 1467 - 1474.
• Genoud, T., Schweizer, F., Tscheuschler, A., Debrieux, D., Casal, J.J., Schäfer, E., Hiltbrunner, A., Fankhauser, C. (2008). FHY1 mediates nuclear import of the light-activated phytochrome A photoreceptor. PLoS Genetics 4: e1000143.
• Oliverio KA; Crepy M; Martin-Tyron EL; Milich R; Harmer SL; Putterill J; Yanovsky MJ; Casal JJ. (2007). GIGANTEA regulates phytochrome A-mediated photomorphogenesis independently of its role in the circadian clock. Plant Physiology 144:495-502
• Trupkin SA; Debrieux D; Hiltbrunner A; Fankhauser C; Casal JJ. (2007). The serine-rich N-terminal region of Arabidopsis phytochrome A is required for protein stability. Plant Molecular Biology 63:669-678
• Cañamero RC; Boccalandro H; Casal JJ; Serna L. (2006). Use of confocal laser as light source reveals stomata-autonomous function. PloS ONE 1:e36.
• Faigón-Soverna A; Harmon FG; Storani L; Karayekov E; Staneloni RJ; Gassmann W; Más P; Casal JJ; Kay SA; Yanovsky MJ. (2006). A constitutive shade-avoidance mutant implicates TIR-NBS-LRR proteins in Arabodopsis photomorphogenic development. Plant Cell 18:2919-2928.
• Mateos JL; Luppi JP; Ogorodnikova OB; Sineshchekov VA; Yanovsky MJ; Braslavsky S; Gärtner W; Casal JJ. (2006). Functional and biochemical analysis of the N-terminal domain of phytochrome A. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281:34421-34429.
• Casal JJ. The photoreceptor interaction network. In: Schafer E, Nagy F (eds). (2006) Photomorphogenesis in Plants and Bacteria: Function and Signal Transduction Mechanisms, Dordrecht, pp 407-437.

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Actividad editorial

• Editor Asociado de Plant Journal
• Editor Asociado de Plant Molecular Biology
• Editor Asociado de Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences
• Miembro del comité editorial de BMC Plant Biology
• Miembro del comité editorial de Trends in Plant Science
• Editor Asociado de Spanish Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Campo de investigación IFEVA

• Control del crecimiento y desarrollo de plantas por la luz