Javier Terriente

Studies and academic degrees:

Academic background

15/12/2006: PhD graduate Cum Laude in Molecular Biology. Centro de Biologia Molecular-Severo Ochoa (CBMSO). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

PhD title: Genetic and molecular characterization of dNab in Drosophila melanogaster.

01/06/2003: Master in Molecular Biology. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Spain.

01/09/2000: Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry. Universidad de Granada (UGR) Spain

Research experience

•    01/04/2007 - 31/08/2011: Postdoctoral researcher.

. Career Development Fellowship. MRC/UK  (01/04/2007-01/06/2008)

. Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship (IEF) (01/07/2008-30/06/2010)

. Career Development Fellowship. MRC/UK  (01/07/2010-Now)

Supervisor: Dr David Wilkinson. Head of Developmental Neurobiology division, NIMR. London. UK

Project title: Molecular and cellular analysis of hindbrain boundary cells

•    01/03/2001 - 31/03/2007: PhD student.

PhD Contract. MEC/Spain

Supervisor: Dr Fernando Jiménez Diaz-Benjumea. CBMSO. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Project title: Genetic and molecular characterization of dNab in Drosophila melanogaster development.

•    01/02/2004 - 31/07/2004: PhD Student.

Marie Curie PhD Short Term Fellowship (HPMT-CT-2001-00232).

Supervisor: Dr Juan Pablo Couso. Head of Department of Developmental Biology. University of Sussex, Brighton. UK

Project title: Genetic and molecular characterization of tarsal-less in Drosophila melanogaster wing development.

R&D Contracts and participation in funded projects

R&D Contracts

01/03/2001-31/03/2007: CSIC PhD contract. Different projects.

01/02/2004 - 31/07/2004: Marie Curie PhD Short Term Fellowship.

01/04/2007-01/06/2008. Career Development Fellowship. MRC/UK. 

01/07/2008-30/06/2010. Marie Curie fellowship ((IEF).

01/07/20107-Now: Career Development Fellowship. MRC/UK.

Participation in funded projects

•    01/2002-12/2002: Comunicación celular y especificación de destinos celulares en el desarrollo de Drosophila

(BMC2001-2181). 4.000000 ptas

Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

Participant organism:  CSIC

Principal researcher: Fernando Jiménez Díaz-Benjumea

Number of researchers: 3

•    01/2003-12/2005:  Comunicación intercelular y especificación de destinos celulares en el desarrollo de Drosophila

(BMC2002-01694). 96.000 €

Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

Participant organism:  CSIC

Principal researcher: Fernando Jiménez Díaz-Benjumea

Number of researchers: 3

•    01/2006-12/2008: Análisis del desarrollo del ala de Drosophila en el eje próximodistal (BFU2005-00116) 107.100 €

Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

Participant organism:  CSIC

Principal researcher: Fernando Jiménez Díaz-Benjumea

Number of researchers: 3

Publications (* Under review or submitted)

* Javier Terriente, Sebastian Gerety, Tomomi Watanabe-Asaka, Rosa Gonzalez-Quevedo and David G. Wilkinson. Interaction between two signaling centres patterns neurogenesis in hindbrain segments. Submitted, Nature Neuroscience.

 * John Jacob, Steven Moore, Jennifer Kong, Chris Milton, Rosa Gonzalez-Quevedo, Javier Terriente, Bennet Novitch and James Briscoe. Repression of the proneural gene, Ascl1 by retinoid signalling restricts neuronal fate choices in the spinal cord.  Under review, Nature Neuroscience.

Baumgardt M, Karlsson D , Terriente J, Díaz-Benjumea FJ, Thor S. (2009) Neuronal subtype specification within a lineage by opposing temporal feed-forward loops. Cell. 139(5):969-82

Perea D, Terriente J, Díaz-Benjumea FJ. (2009) Temporal and spatial windows delimit activation of the outer ring of wingless in the Drosophila wing. Dev Biol. 328(2):445-55

Terriente J, Perea D, Suzanne M, Díaz-Benjumea FJ. (2008) The Drosophila gene zfh2 is required to establish proximal-distal domains in the wing disc. Dev Biol. 320(1):102-12.

Terriente Felix, J., Magariños, M. and Díaz-Benjumea F.J. (2007) Nab controls the activity of the zinc-finger transcription factors Squeeze and Rotund in Drosophila development. Development. 184. 1845-1852.

del Álamo Rodríguez, D., Terriente Félix, J. and Díaz-Benjumea F.J. (2004) The role of the T-box gene optomotor-blind in patterning the Drosophila wing. Dev Biol. 268. 481-492

del Álamo Rodríguez, D., Terriente, J., Galindo, M. I., Couso, J. P., and Díaz-Benjumea, F. J. (2002) Different mechanisms initiate and maintain wingless expression in the Drosophila wing hinge. Development.129. 3995-4004

del Álamo Rodríguez, D., Terriente, J. and Díaz-Benjumea, F. J. (2002) Spitz/EGFr signalling via the Ras/MAPK pathway mediates the induction of bract cells in Drosophila legs. Development. 129.1975-1982

Grants and other fellowship awarded

•    01/02/2004 - 31/07/2004: Marie Curie PhD Short Term Fellowship.

•    01/07/2008-30/06/2010. Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship ((IEF).

•    2007: MEC Postdoctoral Fellowship. I rejected this grant in order to enjoy MC-IEF.

•    01/04/2007-01/06/2008 & 01/07/20107-31/08/2011: Career Development Fellowship. MRC/UK. 

•    1/09/2011- Now: Associate professor contract. UPF/Spain

Research stays abroad

•    01/02/2004 - 31/07/2004: PhD short stay.

Supervisor: Dr Juan Pablo Couso. Head of Developmental Biology division, University Sussex, Brighton. UK

Project title: Genetic and molecular characterization of tarsal-less in Drosophila melanogaster wing development.

•    01/04/2007 - 31/08/2011: Postdoctoral researcher.

Supervisor: Dr David Wilkinson. Head of Developmental Neurobiology division, NIMR. London. UK

Project title: Molecular and cellular analysis of hindbrain boundary cells

Attendance and participation to congresses and conferences

Javier Terriente. Specification and role in development of hindbrain rhombomere boundaries. 7th European Zebrafish Meeting. Jul 2011, Edinburgh (UK). Speaker.

John Jacob, Steven Moore, Jennifer Kong, Chris Milton, Rosa Gonzalez-Quevedo, Javier Terriente, Bennet Novitch and James Briscoe Repression of the proneural gene, Ascl1 by retinoid signalling restricts neuronal fate choices in the spinal cord. 18th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience. Jun 2010. Estoril (Portugal). Poster.

Javier Terriente and David Wilkinson. FLEET: A new tool for lineage tracing and Gain-of-Function analysis in zebrafish. 16th International Society of Developmental Biologists Congress. Sep 2009. Edinburgh (UK). Poster

Magnus Baumgardt, Daniel Karlsson, Javier Terriente, Fernando J Diaz-Benjumea and Stefan Thor. From stem cell to unique neuron: Temporal transitions in an identified CNS progenitor cell by feed forward combinatorial coding. XII European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference . Sep 2008. Wuerzburg (Germany). Poster.

Magnus Baumgardt, Daniel Karlsson, Javier Terriente, Fernando J. Díaz-Benjumea and Stefan Thor. From stem cell to unique neuron: subdivision of the Castor temporal window by a feed forward loop involving Squeeze, Nab and Collier/Knot. 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Sep 2008. San Diego (USA). Poster.

Terriente Félix, J., Magariños, M., Díaz-Benjumea, F. J. (Poster, Sep 2006) A new identified transcriptional co-factor of the Zn Finger gene squeeze  mediates all its functions in the ventral nerve cord development. XI European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference. Sep 2008. Leuven, Belgium. Poster.

Terriente Félix, J., Díaz-Benjumea, F. J. The role of the nubbin gene in patterning the Drosophila wing. Poster. XIX European Drosophila Research Conference. Oct 2005. Szeged, Hungary. Poster.

Terriente Félix, J., Díaz-Benjumea, F. J. The role of the T-box gene optomotor-blind in patterning the Drosophila  wing. IV SEBD Congress. Sep 2004. Santander, Spain. Poster.

del Álamo Rodríguez, D., Terriente Félix, J., Díaz-Benjumea, F. J. The role of the T-box gene optomotor-blind in patterning the Drosophila wing. Poster. XVIII European Drosophila Research Conference. Oct 2003. Gottingen, Germany.         Poster.

Only attendance:

9th Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics (Jul 2010). Madison (USA)

8th Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics (Jul 2008). Madison (USA)

5th European Zebrafish Genetics and Development Meeting (Jul 2007). Amsterdam (NL).