Rita Amaral

Rita Amaral is a Researcher at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She leads the research group focused on protein regulation during plant development and stress responses within the Plant Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering research program.

Her primary research domains include:

• Plant Synthetic Biology
• Metabolic Engineering
• Protein Regulation Mechanisms
• Plant Developmental Biology
• Abiotic Stress Responses in Crops
• Molecular Signaling Pathways

Dr. Amaral supervises PhD students and maintains laboratory facilities in room 2.06 at the CRAG Building on the UAB campus in Cerdanyola, Barcelona. Her research integrates molecular biology approaches to address agricultural challenges through synthetic biology applications.