Marta Morey Ramonell

Marta Morey Ramonell

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0001-9732-1983
Researcher ID: F-8864-2015
Knowledge area: Genčtica

Research group: REGnetREG

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Departament de Genetica, Microbiologia i Estadistica,Facultat de Biologia, Edifici Prevosti 1era planta, Av. Diagonal 643
+34934034795
mmorey(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Docčncia als Graus de Biologia i Biomedicina, i als Mŕsters de Genčtica i Genňmica, Biomedicina, i Neurocičncies
Neurogenetics of Behavior
Biologia del Desenvolupament
Anŕlisi Genčtica

Academic Training

Llicenciada en Biologia . Universidad de Barcelona . 07/09/1998 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Doctora en Biologia . Universidad de Barcelona . 04/06/2003 . (Ph.D.)
Certificat d'Aptitud Pedagňgica . Institut de Cičncies de l'Educació, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya . 08/04/1999 . (Specialized Training)

Research interests

Genetics and transcriptional regulation of neural circuit assembly
Genomics of neural circuit assembly
Neuron-glia interactions during development
Neural plasticity in ageing and tissue remodeling
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic specificity

Projects

In depth genetic analysis of wiring specificity candidate genes and study of their cis-regulatory regions . 2016 - 2017 . Ref.BFU2015-69689-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Marta Morey Ramonell i Martin Rios Alcolea
Genomic and genetic approaches to study synaptic specificity . 2013 - 2015 . Ref.BFU2012-32282 . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Marta Morey Ramonell
REGnetREG . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR1455 . Agčncia de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Montserrat Corominas Guiu
Ayuda para la Incorporación Estable de Doctores 2019 . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.IED2019-001067-I . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Marta Morey Ramonell
Plasticidad neural durante el envejecimiento y la remodelación tisular . 2020 - 2023 . Ref.PID2019-107340GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Marta Morey Ramonell

Journal Publications

Castellano, S.; Morozova, N.; Morey, M.; Berry, M.J.; Serras, F.; Corominas, M.; Guigó, R. (2001). In silico identification of novel selenoproteins in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. EMBO Reports, 2 (8), pp. 697 - 702 . ISSN: 1469-221X
Morey, M.; Serras, F.; Hafen, E.; Bagunya, J.; Corominas, M. (2001). Modulation of the Ras/MAPK signaling pathway by selenoproteins in Drosophila. Developmental Biology, 238(1), pp. 145 - 156 . ISSN: 0012-1606
Morey, M.; Serras, F.; Corominas, M. (2003). Halving the selenophosophate synthetase gene dose confers hypersensitivity to oxidative stress in Drosophila melanogaster. FEBS Letters, 524(1-3), pp. 111 - 114 . ISSN: 0014-5793
Morey, M.; Corominas, M.; Serras, F. (2003). DIAP1 suppresses ROS-induced apoptosis caused by impairment of the selD/sps1 homolog in Drosophila. Journal of Cell Science, 116, pp. 4597 - 4604 . ISSN: 0021-9533
Morey, M.; Yee, S.K.; Herman, T.; Nern, A.; Blanco, E.; Zipursky, S.L. (2008). Coordinate control of synaptic layer specificity and rhodopsins in photoreceptor neurons. Nature, 456(7223), pp. 795 - 799 . ISSN: 0028-0836
Pappu, K.S.; Morey, M.; Nern, A.; Spitzweck, B.; Dickson, B.J.; Zipursky, S.L. (2011). Robo-3- mediated repulsive interactions guide R8 axons during Drosophila visual system development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 108(18), pp. 7571 - 7576 . ISSN: 0027-8424
Tan, L.; Zhang, K.X.; Pecot, M.Y.;, Nagarkar-Jaiswal, S.; Lee, P.T.; Takemura, S.Y.; McEwen, J.M.; Nern, A.; Xu, S.; Tadros, W.; Chen, Z.; Zinn, K.; Bellen, H.J.; Morey, M.; Zipursky, S.L. (2015). Ig Superfamily Ligand and Receptor Pairs Expressed in Synaptic Partners in Drosophila. Cell, 163(7), pp. 1756 - 1769 . ISSN: 0092-8674
Plazaola-Sasieta, H.; Fernandez-Pineda, A.; Zhu, Q.; Morey, M. (2017). Untangling the wiring of the Drosophila visual system: developmental principles and molecular strategies. Journal of Neurogenetics, pp. 1 - 19 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0167-7063
Sarin, S.; Zuniga-Sanchez, E.; Kurmangaliyev, Y.Z.; Cousins, H.; Patel, M.; Hernandez, J.; Zhang, K.X.; Samuel. M.A.; Morey, M.; Sanes, J.R.; Zipursky, S.L. (2018). Role for Wnt signaling in retinal neuropil development: analysis via RNA-Seq and in vivo somatic CRISPR mutagenesis. Neuron, 91(1) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0896-6273
Plazaola-Sasieta, H.; Zhu, Q.; Gaitán-Peńas, H.; Rios, M.; Estévez, R.; Morey, M. (2019). Drosophila ClC-a is required in glia of the stem cell niche for proper neurogenesis and wiring of neural circuits. Glia, 67(12), pp. 2374 - 2398 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0894-1491

Others Publications

Morey, M. (2017). Transcriptional profiling of identified circuit elements in invertebrates . In Decoding neural circuit structure and function. Cellular dissection using genetic model organisms . (pp. 469 - 506) . Springer International Publishing AG . ISBN: 978-3-319-57362-5 .

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