Our research group focuses on the study of interactions between plants, herbivores and natural enemies in agriculture, with the aim of developing sustainable and effective strategies for pest control. Our research encompasses community and evolutionary ecology in the management of agroecosystems exposed hostile environments. We study plant resistance mechanisms against pests as well as strategies by pests to cope with defenses, including suppression of plant defenses.

The activities to be carried out by the research group will cover different aspects related to embryonic development and assisted reproduction. An important area of our work focuses on determining the factors that influence the viability and quality of embryos produced in vitro. This involves investigating the effects of various culture conditions, as well as the development of new techniques and protocols to improve the outcomes of in vitro fertilization and embryo culture. Another fundamental aspect of our research is the study of the mechanisms involved in embryo-maternal communication.

Our group is specialized in bioinformatics and computational biology. We are interested in the study of bacterial pangenomes to understand how they relate to the bacteriophages that infect them, and how the latter can modulate their evolution and the expansion of defense and anti-defense systems.

We are a multidisciplinary research team that explores diverse fundamental questions around wildfires and their socioecological impacts. Our current research focuses on: - Advancing carbon emission estimations from wildfires applying artificial intelligence to 3D terrestrial point clouds. - Assessment, mitigation, and modelling of post-fire soil erosion and its impact on the carbon cycle. - How changes in landscape influence wildfire risk and the provision of ecosystem services.

The main objective of the group is to provide society with scientific information, methods, tools and solutions to mitigate the impact of geological hazards. Among the geological hazards that GI INGEORISK incorporates into its lines of research are the following: landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, land subsidence, volcanic eruptions, floods and the interrelation between the different phenomena.

Our research laboratory is centered in the study of (i) cognitive control and (ii) habitual behaviours. Specifically, we seek to understand how reactive and proactive control is mediated by different brain areas and their causal implication using neuromodulation. The second research line tries to understand how associative learning occurs in behaviour and the brain using experimental and real-life measures. A strong approach we use is to test these cognitive processes in healthy humans to then translate in pathological conditions perturbing fronto-striatal connections and dopamine.

The interface between crop agronomy, water, atmosphere, soil and the environment is scientifically addressed from the perspective of one of the most arid regions of Europe: the Ebro Valley. The agricultural sector currently faces constraints related to: globalization of agricultural markets; concurrent water, air and soil uses; regulations derived from European Union policies; increasing societal exigencies of sustainability and nature preservation; and the need to satisfy the growing demand for agricultural products.