Research in our group focuses into three main areas

- Development of new fungicides, non-toxic to man and the environment, in the fight against fungi pathogenic to man, animals and plants

- Plant genetic transformation to increase resistance against pathogen attack.

- Transcriptomic, Proteomic and Metabolomic studies on the interaction pathogen-host, with special reference to grapevine (Vitis spp.) and the main fungi that affect this crop: Uncinula necator (powdery mildew), Plasmopara viticola (downy mildew), Botrytis cinerea (Botrytis grey mould) and the fungi responsible for the so called wood diseases.

- Search for natural compounds exhibiting anti-neurodegenerative and anti-proliferative activities, as well as with bactericide and fungicide activities towards human and plant pathogens

- Effect of plant phenolic compounds on the role of the ubiquitin/ proteasome pathway in the neurodegenerative diseases that affect man, and of Parkinson’s disease in particular.