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BARTOLOMÉ SABATER. ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE
Retired. Previous position.- (1980-2016) Full Professor (Chair-Catedrático) of Plant Physiology. Department of Life Sciences (Ciencias de la Vida), University of Alcalá. Alcalá de Henares. 28871-Madrid. Spain. Head of the research and teaching group of Plant Physiology of the University of Alcalá de Henares. E-mail bartolome.sabater@uah.es
Date of born.- September, 1946. Graduate.- Chemistry, University of Murcia, 1968. Ph.D.- Sciences, Complutense University, Madrid, 1971.
Previous positions.- Fellowships: Pre-doc (FPI) and post-doc (F. March) at CSIC (Spanish Research Council), Madrid, 1968-72. Professor (different degrees from assistant to full Prof.) successively: Complutense University- Madrid (1971-76), Murcia University (1976-79), Santiago University (1979-80).
Research experience.- Transport and metabolism of sugars in Streptomyces - Protein synthesis in vivo and in vitro (plants and microorganisms) - Nitrogen metabolism during seed germination - Photophosphorylation - Ion uptake by plants - Leaf proteins - Plant senescence – Photooxidative stress - Photosynthetic Electron Transport - Chloroplast genome structure and expression - Thermodynamics basis of biological evolution.
Actual research interest.- Genetic machinery of chloroplasts - Molecular mechanisms of plant senescence - Molecular mechanisms of stress responses – Regulation of photosynthetic electron transport
Publications.- 102 original research papers, 23 contributions to books and review articles (among them a 12 editions text-book), 3 patents, about 130 communications to congresses.
Scientific membership.- American Society of Plant Biologists - Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists - Editorial Board of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS)
Award.- Cruz de Alfonso X (Alfonso X Cross, Spanish Academic Award)
Some representative publications since 2003
POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF CHLOROPLAST GENE EXPRESION: ACCUMULATION OF STABLE psaC mRNA IS DUE TO DOWNSTREAM RNA CLEAVAGES IN ndhD GENE. Eva M. del Campo, Bartolomé Sabater and Mercedes Martín. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 36457-36464 (2002).
THE ACTIVITY OF THE PLASTID Ndh COMPLEX IS REGULATED BY PHOSPHORYLATION OF THE NDH-F SUBUNIT. H. Ramiro Lascano, Leonardo M. Casano, Mercedes Martín and Bartolomé Sabater. Plant Physiol. 132: 256-262 (2003).
CHLOROPLASTS REGULATE LEAF SENESCENCE: DELAYED SENESCENCE IN TRANSGENIC NDHF-DEFECTIVE TOBACCO. J.M. Zapata, A. Guéra, A. Esteban-Carrasco, M. Martín and B. Sabater. Cell Death Differ. (2005) 12: 1277-1284
EDITING OF PLASTID RNA IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA ECOTYPES. Michael Tillich, Helena T. Funk, Christian Schmitz-Linneweber, Peter Poltnigg, Bartolomé Sabater, Mercedes Martin and Rainer M. Maier. Plant Journal (2005) 43: 708-715
MULTIPLE PHOSPHORYLATION SITES IN THE ß SUBUNIT OF THYAKOID ATP SYNTHASE. Guillermo del Riego, Leonardo M. Casano, Mercedes Martín and Bartolomé Sabater Photosynthesis Research (2006) 89:11-18
ARE ORGANISMS COMMITTED TO LOWER THEIR RATES OF ENTROPY PRODUCTION? POSSIBLE RELEVANCE TO EVOLUTION OF THE PRIGOGINE THEOREM AND THE ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS. Bartolomé Sabater. Biosystems (2006) 83: 10-17.
FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE THYLAKOID NDH COMPLEX PHOSPHORYLATION BY SITE-DIRECTED MUTATIONS IN THE ndhF GENE. Mercedes Martín, Helena T. Funk, Patricia H. Serrot, Peter Poltnigg and Bartolomé Sabater. BBA Bioenergetics. (2009) 1787: 920-928
FISIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (Textbook). J. Barceló, G. Nicolás, B. Sabater y R. Sánchez-Tamés (three edition during the last 10 years). Ed. Pirámide, Madrid. 12ª edition 2009. 566 pp. ISBN: 84-368-1525-4
TIME ARROWS AND DETERMINISM IN BIOLOGY. Bartolomé Sabater. Biological Theory 4: 174-182 (2009) pdf
PLASTID ndh GENES IN PLANT EVOLUTION. Mercedes Martín and Bartolomé Sabater. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 48: 636-645 (2010)
CHLOROPLAST CONTROL OF LEAF SENESCENCE. B. Sabater and Mercedes Martín. In: Plastid Development in Leaves during Growth and Senescence. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration (eds. B. Biswal, K. Krupinska, and U. C. Biswal) Vol. 36. Pp. 529-550 (2013). Springer Netherlands.
THE RISE OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE WHEN LIGHT INTENSITY INCREASES IS DELAYED IN ndh GENE-DEFECTIVE TOBACCO AT HIGH BUT NOT AT LOW CO2 CONCENTRATIONS. Mercedes Martín, Dolores Marín, Patricia H. Serrot and Bartolomé Sabater Front. Plant Sci. 6 (Article 39, 11 pp) doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00034 (2015)
EVOLUTIONARY REVERSION OF EDITING SITES OF NDH GENES SUGGESTS THEIR ORIGIN IN THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC, BEFORE THE INCREASE OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2. Mercedes Martín, Dolores Marín, Patricia H. Serrot and Bartolomé Sabater.Front. Ecol. Evol. (2015) 3:81. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.
THE CANCER WARBURG EFFECT MAY BE A TESTABLE EXAMPLE OF THE MINIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION RATE PRINCIPLE. Dolores Marín and Bartolomé Sabater, Physical Biology (2017) 14: 024001 (5 pages). doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/aa64a7
ON THE EDGE OF DISPENSABILITY, THE CHLOROPLAST ndh GENES.Bartolomé Sabater Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 12505 (13 pp). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms222212505
ENTROPY PERSPECTIVES OF MOLECULAR AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY.Bartolomé Sabater Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 4098 (14 pp). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23084098
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