Dr. José Ramón Úrbez Torres will visit the ICVV from June the 15th to October the 30th to undergo a work transfer in collaboration with Dr. David Gramaje. This work transfer is co-founded by the OECD Collaborative Research Program (OECD-CRP) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Agriculture Department of the Canadian Federal Government.
Since 2013, Dr. Úrbez Torres is a Research Scientist in Plant Pathology at the Summerland Research and Development Centre, a Federal Government facility located in Summerland, in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. Dr. Úrbez Torres’ research focuses on the development and implementation of sustainable management strategies against fungal, bacterial and viral diseases of grapevines and fruit trees. Current research projects in his laboratory include studying the role that both abiotic and biotic stress factors play on grapevine trunk diseases development and fungal colonization. In addition, Dr. Urbez Torres’ laboratory conducts research to implement control strategies against two economically important viral diseases of grapes in Canada, including grapevine leafroll disease and grapevine red blotch disease.
Dr. Úrbez Torres was born in Zaragoza, Spain and obtained the degree of Agricultural Engineer from the University of Valladolid. He completed a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology at the University of California Davis. He will be working along with Dr. Gramaje during his time at the ICVV in a research project aimed to developed a High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) pipeline to be implemented in the identification to species level of the complex group of fungi associated with grapevine trunk diseases.
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