Jose C. Reyes

Dr. Reyes have a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Seville. He did a PhD at the Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis (IBVF, Seville) between 1990 and 1994. After that, he did a postdoctoral stay of 3.5 years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in Moshe Yaniv's laboratory, where he studied the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes in mammals. In 1998 he did a stay as visiting scientist at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda (USA) in Gordon Hager's laboratory, where he investigated the nuclear dynamics of GFP-fused chromatin remodelers. In 2000, he obtained a position at the CSIC and started his own laboratory at the IBVF where he began a line of research on chromatin remodeling in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. They were the first to describe and characterize the existence and functions of the SWI/SNF and SWR1 complexes in plants. In 2002, he obtained the prize for Young Investigators from the Seville Academy of Sciences. In 2006, he transferred his laboratory to the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER, Seville), of which he has been Vice Director from July 2016 to December 2020, and currently he is Director of the Department of Genome Biology. Dr. Reyes has published 80 papers, most of them in prestigious international journals. He is among the top 2% of the most cited world scientists of all scientific fields in the ranking by Meta-Research Innovation Center (METRICS) at Stanford University (Editions 2019, 2020 and 2021) (5300 Scopus cites, 7750 Google Scholar cites), which gives an idea of the international impact of his research.
His group combines genetic, molecular and computational biology methods to understand how chromatin of regulatory elements and gene bodies change during transcription, how these changes are regulated and inherited and what protein factors are responsible for them. We specially investigate how alteration of these chromatin mechanisms are implicated in human disease, particularly in cancer.