Academic Career

Since 02/2021	Research assistant (posdoct) in Fungal Genetics and Biotechnology, Wood Research Munich, Research Group Wood Bioprocesses (Prof. Dr. Philipp Benz)
02/2019 – 01/2021	Postdoctoral fellow at the Molecular Phytopathology Department, Botanical Institute, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (Prof. Dr. Natalia Requena)
10/2010 – 05/2017	PhD in Mycorrhizas at the Department of Soil Microbiology and Symbiotic Systems, Zaidín Experimental Station (CSIC) and University of Granada, Spain (Dr. Nuria Ferrol)
09/2012 – 12/2012	Short stay abroad. Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Dr. Andrew Dancis)
10/2007 – 09/2009	M. Sc. in Molecular and Cell Biology at the Genetics Department, University of Málaga, Spain (Dr. Enrique Viguera)
10/2001 – 09/2007	B. Sc. in Biology at the University of Málaga, Spain

Research Areas

• Study of the mechanisms of sugar transport in the red basidiomycetous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides and biotechnological applications
• Characterization of SWEET sugar transporters and its role during the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in Solanum tuberosum (potato)
• Study of the mechanisms of iron homeostasis in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis

Publications

• Tamayo E, Gómez-Gallego T, Ferrol N (2020). Functional analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genes in yeast. In: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 2146 (Eds.: N. Ferrol, L. Lanfranco). Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0603-2_15.
• Saia S, Tamayo E, Schillaci C, De Vita P (2020). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and nutrient cycling in cropping systems. In: Sustainable Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Soil. (Eds.: R Datta, SI Pathan, MT Ceccherini, RS Meena) Springer, pp. 87-115. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7264-3_4
• Tamayo E, Knight SAB, Valderas A, Dancis A, Ferrol N (2018). The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis uses a reductive iron assimilation pathway for high-affinity iron uptake. Environmental Microbiology 20, 1857-1872. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14121
• Ferrol N, Tamayo E*, Vargas P* (2016). The heavy metal paradox in arbuscular mycorrhizas: from mechanisms to biotechnological applications. Journal of Experimental Botany 67, 6253-6265. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erw403. [*These authors contributed equally to this work].
• Tamayo E, Benabdellah K, Ferrol N (2016). Characterization of three new glutaredoxin genes in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis: Putative role of RiGRX4 and RiGRX5 in iron homeostasis. PLoS One 11: e0149606. doi: 10.1371/ journal.pone.0149606.
• Tamayo E, Gómez-Gallego T, Azcón-Aguilar C, Ferrol N (2014). Genome-wide analysis of copper, iron and zinc transporters in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. Frontiers in Plant Science 5, 547. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00547.

• You can find an up-to-date list with all publications here.