María Inés Zanor is a biochemist, graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario. She completed her postgraduate work at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm-Postdam, Germany obtaining the Dr. title at the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario. She continued in Germany where she also was engaged in two postdocs. She is an Independent Researcher at CONICET, and responsible for the Molecular Physiology of Crops line. The research of its line focuses on the characterization of proteins with unknown functions that participate in processes related to stress and growth, thus contributing to the identification of new strategies to increase stress tolerance and productivity of crops of agronomic interest. The line of work has identified a transcription factor that acts as a node in metabolic reprogramming, resulting in plants that are more tolerant to stress and have greater productivity. In the laboratory, direct and reverse genetic methods, biochemical and physiological studies are used and the behavior of plants is studied in optimal growth conditions and under environmental stress. Post-genomics techniques such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics are also used.
