Teresa Capell Capell
Research group
Applied Plant Biotechnology
Office: 1.15
+34 973 70 28 31
teresa.capell@udl.cat
Academic
Sep 2011.now Catedratica Serra-Hunter, Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal, ETSEA-UdL, Lleida, Spain
2009 – 2011 Professor Agregat Serra-Hunter, Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal, ETSEA-UdL, Lleida, Spain
2004 – 2009 Group Leader (Ramon y Cajal contract), Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal, ETSEA-UdL, Lleida, Spain.
1990 – 1994 Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona “
1990 Graduated in Pharmacy in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona
Research
I am working on molecular pharming, metabolic pathway engineering and synthetic biology. I am using target crops for unraveling mechanistic principles underpinning my programs; therefore my research has always been translational combining fundamental and applied elements. In our laboratory we have developed a new approach to engineer complex multistep plant biosynthetic pathways through multigene combinatorial transformation. We have also engineered plants to produce different microbicides with potential to be used as prophylactic treatment to prevent HIV infection.
Professional Experience
2002 – 2004
Group Leader, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Department, Fraunhofer IME, Schmallenberg, Germany
1998 – 2002
Group Leader, Molecular Biotechnology Unit, John Innes Centre, Norwich UK
1995 – 1998
Postdoctoral Fellow-Department of Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology Unit, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK