Marc Valls Matheu

Marc Valls Matheu

Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-2312-0091
Researcher ID: Y-6303-2019
Knowledge area: Genètica

President of national evaluation committee on bacterial, plant and animal biology (Président-Réferent comité d'experts CES20) 2016-2019

Research group: GRC d'Antioxidants en Agrobiotecnologia

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Dept. Genetics, Fac. Biologia, Av. Diagonal 643 annex
934021499
marcvalls(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Licenciatura en Biologia . Fac. Biologia, UB . 15/07/1994 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Doctor Biologia . Fac. Biologia, UB . 12/11/1999 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Molecular characterisation of Ralstonia solanacearum pathogenicity determinants

Projects

CONTROL DE ENFERMEDADES BACTERIANAS DE CULTIVOS USANDO RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM COMO ESPECIE MODELO . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.AGL2016-78002-R . Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad . PI: Marc Valls Matheu
Search for inhibiting molecules against bacterial pathogens NUCLIS . 2015 - 2015 . ACCIÓ. Agència de Suport a l'Empresa Catalana . PI: Marc Valls Matheu
Nuevas aproximaciones para combatir las enfermedades de la patata . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.AGL2013-46898 . Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad . PI: Marc Valls Matheu; Nuria Sanchez Coll
Pathogen-informed strategies for sustainable broad-spectrum crop resistance . 2012 - 2016 . Ref.FA1208 . Unió Europea . PI: Marc Valls Matheu
Estudi genòmic de malalties de tomaquera i patatera . 2011 - 2013 . Ref.CONES-2010-0030 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Marc Valls Matheu

Journal Publications

Planas-Marquès, M.; Kressin, P.J.; Kashyap, A.; Panthee, R.D.; Louws, J.F.; Coll, N.S.; Valls, M. (2019). Resistant tomato restricts colonization and invasion by the pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum at four organismal levels. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(6), pp. 2157 - 2171 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0022-0957
Puigvert, M.; Solé, M.; López-Garcia, B.; Coll, N.S.; Beattie, K.D.; Davis, R.A.; Elofsson, M.; Valls, M. (2019). Type III secretion inhibitors for the management of bacterial plant diseases. Molecular Plant Pathology, 20(1), pp. 20 - 32 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1464-6722
Planas-Marquès, M; Bernardo-Faura, M; Paulus, J; Kaschani, F; Kaiser, M; Valls, M; van der Hoorn, RAL; Coll, NS (2018). Protease Activities Triggered by Ralstonia solanacearum Infection in Susceptible and Tolerant Tomato Lines. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 17(6), pp. 1112 - 1125 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1535-9476
Lu, H.; Lema, A.S.; Planas-Marquès, M.; Alonso-Díaz, A.; Valls, M.; Coll, N.S. (2018). Type III secretion-dependent and -independent phenotypes caused by Ralstonia solanacearum in arabidopsis roots. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 31(1), pp. 175 - 184 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0894-0282
Capela, D.; Marchetti, M.; Clérissi, C.; Perrier, A.; Guetta, D.; Gris, C.; Valls, M.; Jauneau, A.; Cruveiller, S.; Rocha, EPC.; Masson-Boivin, C. (2017). Recruitment of a lineage-specific virulence regulatory pathway promotes intracellular infection by a plant pathogen experimentally evolved into a legume symbiont. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34 (10), pp. 2503 - 2252 . https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx165 . ISSN: 0737-4038
Erill, I.; Puigvert, M.; Legrand, L.; Guarischi-Sousa, R.; Vandecasteele, C.; Setubal, JC.; Genin, S.; Guidot, A.; Valls,M. (2017). Comparative analysis of Ralstonia solanacearum methylomes. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, p. 504 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1664-462X
Lema Asqui, S.; Vercammen, D.; Serrano, I.; Valls, M.; Rivas, S.; van Breusegem, F.; Conlon, F.L.; Dangl, J,L.; Coll, N.S. (2017). AtSERPIN1 is an inhibitor of the metacaspase AtMC1-mediated cell death and autocatalytic processing in planta. New Phytologist . https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14446 . ISSN: 0028-646X
Popa, C.; Li, L.; Gil, S.; Tatjer, L.; Hashii, K.; Tabuchi, M.; Coll, N.S.; Ariño, J.; Valls, M. (2016). The effector AWR5 from the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum is an inhibitor of the TOR signalling pathway. Scientific Reports, 3(6:27058) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322
Popa, C.; Coll, N.S.; Valls, M.; Sessa, G. (2016). Yeast as a heterologous model system to uncover type III effector function. PLoS Pathogens, 12(2), pp. 1 - 17 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1553-7366

Others Publications

Corominas, M.; Valls, M. (2011). Organismes model en Biologia . In Treballs . Volume. 62 . Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Biologia. ISSN: 0212-3037 .

Relevant Activities

President of national evaluation committee on bacterial, plant and animal biology (Président-Réferent comité d'experts CES20) 2016-2019
Associate Researcher, G4 level, Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA). Ministry of Education - Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Member of the 'International Society of Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI)'

More Information: http://www.ub.edu/bactplantdiseases/members.html