Silvia Ramundo

Alumni Postdoctoral Fellow

silvia@walterlab.ucsf.edu

Scientific Interest

Organelle biogenesis and gene expression, Protein homeostasis, Retrograde signaling.

Current Research Interests

Chloroplast unfolded protein response

Former Lab Affiliations

2005	Dr. Joseph Vilardell, Center for Genomic Regulation
2006	Dr. Jim Umen, The Salk Institute
2006-2013	Dr. Jean David Rochaix, University of Geneva

Education

2000-2005	BA/MS Pharmaceutical Biotechnology – University of Bologna, Italy
2006-2012	Ph.D. – University of Geneva, Switzerland

Selected Publications

Vilarrasa-Blasi J, Fauser F, Onishi M, Ramundo S, Patena W, Millican M, Osaki J, Philp C, Nemeth M, Salomé PA, Li X, Wakao S, Kim RG, Kaye Y, Grossman AR, Niyogi KK, Merchant S, Cutler S, Walter P, Dinneny JR, Jonikas MC, Jinkerson RE. Systematic characterization of gene function in a photosynthetic organism. bioRxiv - preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.11.420950, 2020
( PMID : not available ) (PDF)

Ramundo S, Asakura Y, Salomé PA, Strenkert D, Boone M, Mackinder LCM, Takafuji K, Dinc E, Rahire M, Crèvecoeur M, Magneschi L, Schaad O, Hippler M, Jonikas MC, Merchant S, Nakai M, Rochaix J-D, Walter P. Co-expressed subunits of dual genetic origin define a conserved supercomplex mediating essential protein import into chloroplasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 202014294, 2020
(PMID : 33273113) (PDF)

Perlaza K, Toutkoushian H, Boone M, Lam M, Iwai M, Jonikas MC, Walter P, Ramundo S. The Mars1 kinase confers photoprotection through signaling in the chloroplast unfolded protein response. eLife 8:e49577, 2019
(PMID : 31612858) (PDF)