Encarnación Martínez-Salas#
| Membership Number: | 5843 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cbm.uam.es/encarna_martinez-salas |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8432-5587 |
| Twitter: | @emarsal2 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Professor CSIC, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa. Head of the Genome Decoding Unit
- 2002 - 2007 Research Scientist, Centro de Biología Molecular
- 1987 - 2002 Tenure Scientist, Centro de Biología Molecular
- 1988 - 1989 Fogarty Fellowship (NIH), Roche Institute Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ, USA
- 1986 - 1988 Postdoctoral fellow, Roche Institute Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ, USA
- 1986 - 1986 Postdoctoral fellow, Dep. Biol Chem. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- 1984 - 1986 Postdoctoral fellow, Centro de Biología Molecular, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- 1981 - 1983 Postdoctoral fellow, Inst Cell Biology, Madrid
- 1977 - 1981 Predoctoral student, Inst Cell Biology, Madrid
Fields of Scholarship
- Translation control
- Host-factor interactions in virus infected cells
- Structural and functional analysis of non-coding RNA regions
- RNA viruses
- RNA-binding proteins
- RNA structure
- IRES elements
- Mechanisms of translation initiation in eukaryotic cells
- RNA-protein interaction
- Aternative mechanisms of protein synthesis used by RNA viruses
- Internal ribosome entry sites (IRES)
- Functional and structural characterization of RNA-binding proteins
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Best University students award
- 1981 Caja de Ahorros de Córdoba PhD award
- 1986 Fundacion Juan March Fellowship
- 1988 Fogarty fellowship, NIH, USA
- 1990 Member Sociedad Española de Virología (SEV)
- 1996 Member Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (SEBBM)
- 1998 - 2002 Coordinator of the group "Regulation of gene expression"
- 1998 Member of American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
- 2003 Member of the network Ribored
- 2006 Member of RNA Society (RNA)
- 2009 Global FMDV reasearch association (GFRA) member
- 2010 Global Virus Network (GVN) member
- 2019 Member of the network RNAlife-2
- Evaluation of teaching activities: 6 positively evaluated 5-year terms (1978 - 2020)
- Evaluation of research activities: 6 positively evaluated 6-year terms (1978 - 2018)
