Encarnación Martínez-Salas#

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



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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)

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