Moisés Expósito-Alonso

Moisés Expósito-Alonso
Born	1990 Alicante, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	University of Seville, University of Edinburgh, Max Planck Society
Awards	Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, National Institutes of Health Director's Early Independence Award, Max Planck Society Otto Hahn Medal
Scientific career
Fields	Plant Biology, Global Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics

Moisés Expósito-Alonso (born 1990, Alicante) is a Spanish scientist and assistant professor of global change biology at the University of California, Berkeley, member of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholar from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.^[1][2][3] His research includes the study of plants and how climate change affects their evolution.

Education

Exposito-Alonso graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Seville, Spain, in 2013, where he worked at the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC). He completed his Master of Science in quantitative and population genetics from the University of Edinburgh in 2014. He conducted his doctorate in 2018 at the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen, Germany under Detlef Weigel. After his PhD, Exposito-Alonso conducted a postdoctoral position in 2019 at the University of California, Berkeley in the Integrative Biology department with Rasmus Nielsen.^[4][3][2]

Career and research

Exposito-Alonso's research includes the study of genetic and phenotypic basis of plant local adaptation to different climates using Arabidopsis thaliana as model system. His research combines large-scale common garden experiments and genome sequencing and CRISPR/Cas9 to study the consequence of gene edits in Arabidopsis. His research has been published in journals such as Nature (journal), Science (journal), Cell (journal), Evolution (journal), the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and independent news media such as The Scientist (magazine) and El País.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Prior to joining the University of California, Berkeley, the Innovative Genomics Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2024, Exposito-Alonso established his laboratory in 2019 as principal investigator in the Departments of Plant Biology and Global Ecology from the Carnegie Institution for Science and assistant professor at Stanford University.^[11]

Selected publications

1. Exposito-Alonso M., Booker T.R., Czech .L, Gillespie L., Hateley S., Kyriazis, C.C., Lang, P., Leventhal, L., Nogues-Bravo, D., Pagowski, V., Ruffley, M., Spence, J.P., Arana, S.T., Weiß, C., Zess, E. (2021) Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene. Science ^[9]
2. 1001 Genomes Consortium§, (2016). 1,135 Genomes reveal the global pattern of polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Cell ^[12]
3. Exposito-Alonso, M., Vasseur, F., Ding, W., Wang, G., Burbano, H.A., Weigel, D., (2018). Genomic basis and evolutionary potential for extreme drought adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Ecology and Evolution ^[13]
4. Exposito-Alonso, M., 500 Genomes Field Experiment Team., Burbano, H.A. et al. Natural selection on the Arabidopsis thaliana genome in the present and future climates. Nature ^[7]

Awards and recognition

• 2019 Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize, German Society for Plant Sciences^[14]
• 2019 Leopoldina Prize for Junior Scientists, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina^[15]
• 2020 Loftus-Hill Young Investigator Prize, American Society of Naturalists^[16]
• 2020 Director's Early Independence Award, National Institutes of Health^[17]
• 2020 Karl-Freudenberg Award, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities^[18]
• 2020 Director's Early Independence Award, National Institutes of Health ^[19]
• 2020 Max Planck Society's Otto Hahn Medal ^[20]
• 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science ^[21]
• 2022 Tansley Medal, New Phytologist^[22]
• 2023 Early Career Faculty Award, American Society of Plant Biologists^[23]
• 2024 Premio Princesa de Girona, Fundación Princesa de Girona^[24]

References

1. "Moisés Expósito Alonso to Join IB Faculty". Integrative Biology. 2023-10-02. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
2. "Moi Exposito‐Alonso". New Phytologist. 237 (6): 1964–1965. March 2023. doi:10.1111/nph.18735. ISSN 0028-646X. PMID 36795476. S2CID 256899996.
3. "Dr. Moisés Expósito Alonso". carnegiescience.edu. 2023-05-09. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
4. "Moises Exposito-Alonso | Department of Biology". biology.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
5. Carstens, Andy (2022-09-22). "Are We In the Midst of a Silent Mass Extinction?". The Scientist. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
6. Arranz, Jon Gurutz (2022-12-09). "Moisés Expósito-Alonso, sobre la extinción silenciosa: "El Antropoceno ya ha provocado una pérdida de biodiversidad irremplazable"". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-11.
7. Exposito-Alonso, Moises; Burbano, Hernán A.; Bossdorf, Oliver; Nielsen, Rasmus; Weigel, Detlef (September 2019). "Natural selection on the Arabidopsis thaliana genome in present and future climates". Nature. 573 (7772): 126–129. Bibcode:2019Natur.573..126E. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1520-9. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 31462776. S2CID 201659231.
8. Exposito-Alonso, Moises; Brennan, Adrian C.; Alonso-Blanco, Carlos; Picó, F. Xavier (2018). "Spatio-temporal variation in fitness responses to contrasting environments in Arabidopsis thaliana". Evolution. 72 (8): 1570–1586. doi:10.1111/evo.13508. ISSN 0014-3820. JSTOR 48577278. PMID 29947421. S2CID 49425833.
9. Exposito-Alonso, Moises; Booker, Tom R.; Czech, Lucas; Gillespie, Lauren; Hateley, Shannon; Kyriazis, Christopher C.; Lang, Patricia L. M.; Leventhal, Laura; Nogues-Bravo, David; Pagowski, Veronica; Ruffley, Megan; Spence, Jeffrey P.; Toro Arana, Sebastian E.; Weiß, Clemens L.; Zess, Erin (2022-09-23). "Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene". Science. 377 (6613): 1431–1435. Bibcode:2022Sci...377.1431E. doi:10.1126/science.abn5642. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 36137047. S2CID 248497637.
10. Dorone, Yanniv; Boeynaems, Steven; Flores, Eduardo; Jin, Benjamin; Hateley, Shannon; Bossi, Flavia; Lazarus, Elena; Pennington, Janice G.; Michiels, Emiel; De Decker, Mathias; Vints, Katlijn; Baatsen, Pieter; Bassel, George W.; Otegui, Marisa S.; Holehouse, Alex S. (2021-08-05). "A prion-like protein regulator of seed germination undergoes hydration-dependent phase separation". Cell. 184 (16): 4284–4298.e27. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.009. ISSN 0092-8674. PMC 8513799. PMID 34233164.
11. "Moisés Expósito Alonso to Join IB Faculty". Integrative Biology. 2023-10-02. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
12. 1001 Genomes Consortium. Electronic address: [e-mail]; 1001 Genomes Consortium (2016-07-14). "1,135 Genomes Reveal the Global Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana". Cell. 166 (2): 481–491. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.063. ISSN 1097-4172. PMC 4949382. PMID 27293186.
13. Exposito-Alonso, Moises; Vasseur, François; Ding, Wei; Wang, George; Burbano, Hernán A.; Weigel, Detlef (February 2018). "Genomic basis and evolutionary potential for extreme drought adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2 (2): 352–358. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0423-0. ISSN 2397-334X. PMC 5777624. PMID 29255303.
14. "Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize: Awarded Scientists". www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
15. "Leopoldina Prize for Junior Scientists". Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
16. "Awards". www.amnat.org. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
17. "2020 NIH Director's Early Independence Award Program - Award Recipients | NIH Common Fund". commonfund.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
18. "How plants react to climate change". www.freudenberg.com. 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
19. "2020 NIH Director's Early Independence Award Program - Award Recipients | NIH Common Fund". commonfund.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
20. "Exposito-Alonso honored for outstanding early career achievements". carnegiescience.edu. 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
21. "Moises Exposito-Alonso". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
22. "Tansley Medal - Awards". www.newphytologist.org. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
23. "Early Career Award". American Society of Plant Biologists. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
24. "Moisés Expósito-Alonso, el biólogo español de Berkeley que aplica la genética para entender cómo las plantas se adaptan al cambio climático". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2024-07-10. Retrieved 2024-10-27.

External links

• Moisés Expósito-Alonso publications indexed by Google Scholar