UJI researcher Sara Izquierdo Zandalinas has been awarded at the first Santiago Grisolía Valencian Science Awards



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## UJI researcher Sara Izquierdo Zandalinas has been awarded at the first Santiago Grisolía Valencian Science Awards

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Sara Izquierdo Zandalinas, a researcher on the Ramón y Cajal Programme at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, received from the President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig, the award that recognises her scientific projection as a young researcher in the field of biotechnology, during the award ceremony of the first Santiago Grisolía Valencian Science Awards at the Science Museum of Valencia on World Science Day for Peace and Development.

She graduated in Biotechnology at the Universitat Politècnica de València (2010) and obtained the International Doctorate in Science and the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize awarded by the Universitat Jaume I (2016). Between 2017 and 2021, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Texas (USA) and as a senior researcher at the University of Missouri (USA) with Professor Ron Mittler. In July 2021 she joined the Ecophysiology and Biotechnology Research Group of the Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Natural Sciences of the UJI as a researcher of the GenT programme of the Generalitat Valenciana and since 2022 she is a Ramón y Cajal contract researcher. She also belongs to the educational innovation group of Studies Related to Life Sciences (INECVI).

Her field of work specialises in the study of the physiological, biochemical and molecular responses of plants to the combination of multiple abiotic stresses. Due to the impact of climate change, multiple climatic factors (heat waves, floods, droughts, low temperatures...) are combined with extreme soil conditions (salinity, acidity or basicity) and various pollutants (pesticides, heavy metals, microplastics...). This combination of adverse conditions leads to specific physiological and molecular responses in plants. The study of these unique responses is essential for the development of biotechnological tools for crop improvement.

The results of this research have been published in more than 40 publications in high impact scientific journals such as *PNAS, Plant Cell, Trends in Plant Science, Science Signaling, New Phytologist, Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol* or *Plant Physiology*. In addition, her work has been recognised with the Francisco Sabater award of the Spanish Society of Plant Physiology (2019) and the Young Scientist award of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB, 2021).

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