Jose Gutierrez-Marcos

Role of the epigenetics in the integration of environmental signals

Main research interests 

Research in my group focuses on the study of developmental plasticity in plants using molecular genetics, genomics and epigenomics approaches.

Selection of 3 major recent publications

Papareddy R, Dickinson HG, Boutiller K, VandenBosch KA, Ohki S, Gutierrez-Marcos JF (2014) Central Cell Derived Peptides Regulate Early Embryo Patterning in Flowering Plants. Science 344:168-172.

Wibowo A., Becker B., Marconi G., Durr J., Price J., Hagmann J., Papareddy R., Kageyama J., Becker J., Weigel D., and Gutierrez-Marcos JF. Exposure to environmental stress induces transient epigenetic memory responses (2016). eLife 5:e03457

Wibowo, A., Becker, C., Durr, J., Papareddy, R., Santain, Q., Spaepen, S., Hilton, S., Bending.,G.,  Schulze-Lefert, P., Weigel., D. and Gutierrez-Marcos, J. (2018) Incomplete reprogramming of cell-specific epigenetic marks during asexual reproduction leads to heritable phenotypic variation in plants. PNAS.

Contact info

School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

j.f.gutierrez-marcos[at]warwick.ac.uk

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/people/jgutierrez-marcos/

University of Warwick