Interview with Federico Ariel

ARIEL FD

TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE.

ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON

Año: 2020

1360-1385

Federico Ariel began his research for his PhD into the role of transcription factors in symbiotic nodule organogenesis in legumes with Dr Raquel Chan at Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (IAL) in Santa Fe, Argentina. In 2010, his work was chosen as the best from all over Latin America by the Brazilian Society of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (SBBq). He then obtained a European Molecular BiologyOrganization (EMBO) fellowship to join the group of Dr Martin Crespi at the Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2) in France. During his time at Saclay (between 2011 and 2016), Federico pioneered the characterization of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in plants and contributed to the mechanistic understanding of their role in epigenetics and alternative splicing. In 2016, he obtained a permanent position at the Argentinian Research Council (CONICET) and set up his own group (the Epigenetics and Noncoding RNAs, EPILAB) at IAL, Santa Fe. The Ariel group currently studies the evolution of lncRNAs and their role in the dynamic 3D organization of the genetic information hosted in the nucleus of plant cells. Since his return to his home country, Federico Ariel has been awarded two national prizes for his research.