Welcome to the Gutiérrez Lab
Our main goal is to understand how plants sense and respond to nutrients. And in particular, how nutrient signals interact with other signaling pathways to coordinate global gene expression in plants.
We are currently taking a systems biology approach (Gutiérrez et al., 2005) to understand how nitrogen-induced responses are coordinated with other processes in the plant to coordinate growth and development in a changing environment.
Our research has both basic and applied significance. Understanding how plants respond to nutrient and how this regulation is integrated with other processes is essential to devise strategies for the improvement of agronomical traits.
Teaching
Go to the webpage for the "Biología de Sistemas - BIO325C" course here.
Funding sources
Millennium Science Initiative - MIDEPLAN
Programa Bicentenario de Ciencia y Tecnologia
FONDECYT Regular
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology