Dr. Esther Cañibano Morejón
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Geneva, Sciences III
30 Quai E. Ansermet
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Tel.: +41-22-379-3653
Email: esther.canibano@unige.ch
Born in 1992 in Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
2024 -
Postdoc, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2023 - 2024
Postdoc, "Light signalling and plant adaptation to the environment", National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) Madrid, Spain (Supervisor: Dr. Sandra Fonseca)
2018 - 2023
PhD, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Thesis: "Role of the DET1-HY5 regulatory axis in the control of photomorphogenesis and the dynamics of histone 2B ubiquitination in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.)", at National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain (Supervisors: Dr. Vicente Rubio and Dr. Sandra Fonseca)
2022
Four-month visiting researcher, Institute de Biologie de l'ENS (IBENS – ENS), Paris, France (laboratory of Dr. Fredy Barneche and Dr. Clara Bourbousse)
2016 - 2017
MSc in Agroforestry Biotechnology, Polytechnic University of Madrid. Thesis: "Role of BRC1 phosphorylation by SnRK1 in the control of shoot branching", at National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain (Supervisor: Dr. Pilar Cubas)
2012 - 2016
BSc in Biology with specialization in Biotechnology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Thesis: "PGN34: a new cannabinoid agonist with cholinergic properties for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease", at Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research (CIB-CSIC), Madrid (supervisor: Dr. Ángeles Martín Requero)
2010 - 2012
Advanced expert in Anatomical Pathology and Cytology, San Carlos Clinical Hospital of Madrid
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Cañibano, E., Rodríguez-Sánchez, N., Gómez-Soto, D., El Kendi, F.Z., Lozano-Juste, J., Kinoshita, T., Oliveros, J.C., Bourbousse, C., and Fonseca, S. (2025) A PIF-SAUR module safeguards hypocotyl elongation from ABA inhibition in the dark. Sci. Adv. 11: eadv0895. (preprint: bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.20.576397).
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Lee, B.D.*, Yim, Y.*, Cañibano, E.*, Kim, S.H., García-León, M., Rubio, V., Fonseca, S., and Paek, N.C. (2022) CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC 1 promotes seed germination by destabilizing RGA-LIKE 2 in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 189: 1662-1676. (*equal contribution)
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Cañibano, E.*, Bourbousse, C.*, García-León, M., Garnelo Gómez, B., Wolff, L., García-Baudino, C., Lozano-Durán, R., Barneche, F., Rubio, V., and Fonseca, S. (2021) DET1-mediated COP1 regulation avoids HY5 activity over second-site gene targets to tune plant photomorphogenesis. Mol. Plant. 14: 963-982. (*equal contribution)
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Chico, J.M., Lechner, E., Fernandez-Barbero, G., Cañibano, E., García-Casado, G., Franco-Zorrilla, J.M., Hammann, P., Zamarreño, A.M., García-Mina, J.M., Rubio, V., Genschik, P., and Solano, R. (2020) CUL3BPM E3 ubiquitin ligases regulate MYC2, MYC3, and MYC4 stability and JA responses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 117: 6205-6215
