Raquel Sánchez-Pérez
University of Copenhagen , Denmark
Biography
Raquel Sánchez Pérez´s research topic is the study of important agronomic traits within Prunus species, with a desired practical output both for food production and farmer economy. Her research is focused on flowering time and the origin of bitterness in sweet cherry and almond, respectively. The final aim is to develop molecular markers for application in breeding programs that will help to obtain new improved cultivars that are more resistant to the negative effects of climate change. In the last years, she has supervised three PhD theses on secondary metabolites, i.e. cyanogenic glucosides, in flower bud dormancy, seed germination and fruit development. She is further teaching Biochemistry at Copenhagen University, where she is employed and funded by the Villum Foundation, under the Young Investigator Program