The research group has an extensive experience in the study of molecular mechanisms that regulate the adaptation to changing environmental conditions of lichenic microalgae and vascular plants and their biotechnological application. This type of studies has been developed in different research lines:

a) Transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of the response of lichenic microalgae to extreme conditions such as salinity, drainage and radiation.

b) Biotechnology of lichenic microalgae: transformation and obtaining natural products.

c) Characterisation of polyamine metabolism in the stress response of Arabidopsis thaliana. By means of transgenic manipulation, the polyamines (PAs) biosynthesis process has been manipulated, resulting in the obtaining of different plant lines with altered levels of putrescine, spermidine and/or spermine, which have been characterised at different levels, including metabolomic and transcriptomic studies. Most of the lines generated, plants with high levels of one or more PAs, show resistance to different environmental and biotic stresses.
 
d) Regulation of transcriptional programmes by DELLA and prefoldin proteins. These proteins act as transcriptional regulators whose accumulation depends on environmental conditions and which modulate the execution of multiple developmental programmes and stress responses by modifying the activity of transcription factors with which they physically interact.