Education

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Barcelona, 1999

Current position

Professor, Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona (since 2008)

Publications (since 2003)

1. Stael, S., Nowack, M. K., Van Breusegem, F., Valls, M. and Coll, N. S. (2014). The death of plant cells: from proteases to field applications. Cell Death Differ 21(7): 1178-1179.
   
2. Coll, N. S., Smidler, A., Puigvert, M., Popa, C., Valls, M. and Dangl, J. L. (2014). The plant metacaspase AtMC1 in pathogen-triggered programmed cell death and aging: functional linkage with autophagy. Cell Death Differ 21(9): 1399-1408.
   
3. Cruz, A. P., Ferreira, V., Pianzzola, M. J., Siri, M. I., Coll, N. S. and Valls, M. (2014). A novel, sensitive method to evaluate potato germplasm for bacterial wilt resistance using a luminescent Ralstonia solanacearum reporter strain. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 27(3): 277-285.
   
4. Zuluaga, A. P., Puigvert, M. and Valls, M. (2013). Novel plant inputs influencing Ralstonia solanacearum during infection. Front Microbiol 4: 349.
   
5. Coll, N. S. and Valls, M. (2013). Current knowledge on the Ralstonia solanacearum type III secretion system. Microb Biotechnol 6(6): 614-620.
   
6. Peeters, N., Guidot, A., Vailleau, F. and Valls, M. (2013). Ralstonia solanacearum, a widespread bacterial plant pathogen in the post-genomic era. Mol Plant Pathol 14(7): 651-662.
   
7. Sole, M., Popa, C., Mith, O., Sohn, K. H., Jones, J. D., Deslandes, L. and Valls, M. (2012). The awr gene family encodes a novel class of Ralstonia solanacearum type III effectors displaying virulence and avirulence activities. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 25(7): 941-953.
   
8. Pianzzola, M. J., Siri, M. I., Lucca, F., Zuluaga, P. and Valls, M. (2012). Manejo de enfermedades de la patata en suramérica y su aplicación al campo Europeo. 214884 -Tierras de Castilla y León. Agricultura 188, 65 -71.
   
9. Monteiro, F., Genin, S., van Dijk, I. and Valls, M. (2012). A luminescent reporter evidences active expression of Ralstonia solanacearum type III secretion system genes throughout plant infection. Microbiology 158(Pt 8): 2107-2116.
   
10. Monteiro, F., Sole, M., van Dijk, I. and Valls, M. (2012). A chromosomal insertion toolbox for promoter probing, mutant complementation, and pathogenicity studies in Ralstonia solanacearum. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 25(4): 557-568.   
    
11. Valls, M., Silva-Rocha, R., Cases, I., Munoz, A. and de Lorenzo, V. (2011). Functional analysis of the integration host factor site of the sigma(54) Pu promoter of Pseudomonas putida by in vivo UV imprinting. Mol Microbiol 82(3): 591-601.
    
12. Corominas, M. and Valls, M. (2011). Organismes model en Biologia. Treballs 62. (Spain): Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Biologia.
    
13. Plener, L., Manfredi, P., Valls, M. and Genin, S. (2010). PrhG, a transcriptional regulator responding to growth conditions, is involved in the control of the type III secretion system regulon in Ralstonia solanacearum. J Bacteriol 192(4): 1011-1019.
    
14. Lumbreras, V., Vilela, B., Irar, S., Sole, M., Capellades, M., Valls, M., Coca, M. and Pages, M. (2010). MAPK phosphatase MKP2 mediates disease responses in Arabidopsis and functionally interacts with MPK3 and MPK6. Plant J 63(6): 1017-1030.
    
15. Muñoz, A., Valls, M. and de Lorenzo, V. (2010). Extreme DNA bending: molecular basis of the regulatory breadth of IHF. In: Bacterial chromatin. Springer: 365-393.
    
16. Genin, S., Peeters, N., Poueymiro, M., Angot, A., Delaspre, F., Nieto-Peñalver, C., Saurel, O., Milon, A., Valls, M., Barberis, P., Vorholt, J. and Boucher, C. (2008). Coordinated expression of type III secretion system-dependent effectors, small diffusible molecules and phytohormone analogues in the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum. Biology of Plant Microbe Interactions. 6, (United States of America): American Phytopathological Society.
    
17. Valls, M., Angot, A., Occhialini, A., Cunnac, S., Poueymiro, M., Barberis, P., Guidot, A., Peeters, N. P., Boucher, C. and Genin, S. (2007). Ralstonia solanacearum Type III-dependent pathogenesis: genomic approaches and identification of plant targets. Biology of Plant Microbe Interactions, 5, (United States of America): American Phytopathological Society.
    
18. Valls, M., Genin, S. and Boucher, C. (2006). Integrated regulation of the type III secretion system and other virulence determinants in Ralstonia solanacearum. PLoS Pathog 2(8): e82.
    
19. Velazquez, F., de Lorenzo, V. and Valls, M. (2006). The m-xylene biodegradation capacity of Pseudomonas putida mt-2 is submitted to adaptation to abiotic stresses: evidence from expression profiling of xyl genes. Environ Microbiol 8(4): 591-602.