Department: Biología de Organismos y Sistemas

Institute/Center: Instituto Universitario de Biotecnología de Asturias

Area: Plant Physiology

Email: fernandezelena@uniovi.es

Personal web: https://fernandezelena9.wixsite.com/helenafernandez

Doctor by the Universidad de Oviedo with the thesis Potenciación de la capacidad reproductiva y morfogénica en helechos para su micropropagación 1993. Supervised by Dr. Ricardo Sánchez Tamés.

Associate Professor at Oviedo University. My research professional career has been devoted to the study of seedless plants, in particular ferns (Monilophytes). I got my phD with the highest outstanding Cum Laude rating. Then, I completed a postgraduate stay at the INRA center in Orléans, France, under the cover of a European project, training in chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques. Ramón y Cajal National Program. Guest at the University of Zurich invited by the outstanding researcher Ueli Grossniklaus, covered by European Union’s 7th Framework Program. Articles (70), editor with Springer (3), book chapters (13), National and International Meetings (48), research projects (12). 3 Doctoral Theses (one in progress), 4 Bachelor's Theses, 3 DEA, 10 End Degree Projects, and 7 End Master Projects. Member of the Spanish Society of Plant Physiology and the Spanish Society of In Vitro Culture of Plant Cells and Tissues. Collaborator on divulgation tasks. Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Biology for five and a half years (IX-2011/III-2017). https://fernandezelena9.wixsite.com/helenafernandez https://fernandezelena9.wixsite.com/proyectopteridium

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