Miguel A. Aranda Regules

Miguel A. Aranda graduated from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1989, and obtained his PhD degree in Plant Pathology in 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he carried out postdoctoral research at John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK). In 1998 he got a permanent position as tenured scientist at CSIC (Spain). Currently, he is Research Professor at CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain. In 2000-2002 he was Deputy Director of EELM-CSIC, Malaga, Spain. He has also been Head of Department of Stress Biology and Plant Pathology during 2008-2010 at CEBAS-CSIC. During 2008, 2011-2012 and 2017 he carried out sabbatical stays at John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK), U. C. Berkeley (CA, USA) and U.C. Davis (CA, USA) respectively. Miguel A. Aranda is the founder and shareholder of the companies Bioprodin and Abiopep, both spin-offs of CSIC (Spain). He is Senior Editor of Annals of Applied Biology and Viruses. Since 2009, Miguel A. Aranda has been teaching Applied Virology in Master in Plant Biology and Biotechnology (Univ. Murcia, Spain). His main Research interests are Plant Virology, Plant Molecular Genetics and Genomics and Plant Biotechnology. 120 of his papers are included in the Science Citation Index. He has participated in more than 45 national and international research grants and contracts, and has patented 9 inventions.