MARIA INMACULADA FARRAN BLANCH
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• Department: AGRONOMÍA, BIOTECNOLOGÍA Y ALIMENTACIÓN
• Area: Producción Vegetal
• e-mail: farranunavarra.es
• Phone number: (+34) 948 16 8034 (ext. 8034)
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Agricultural Engineer from the University of Lleida (UdL) and PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the Public University of Navarra (UPNA). She has carried out research stays at the ENSA in Toulouse (France), at the UdL and at the University of Navarra - CIMA. In 1998 she joined the Plant Production area of the UPNA as a teacher, where she currently holds a position as University Professor.

She is in charge of the “Agrobiotechnology” research group at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Applied Biology (IMAB) and her main lines of research are: genetic transformation of plants, biofactory plants for the production of biopharmaceutical compounds and vaccines, redox regulation in plants, biostimulants and biocontrol agents. Principal investigator of three research projects and collaborator in other projects, she is the author of more than 30 scientific articles published in high impact journals and two biotechnology patents.

Her teaching activity has been developed in subjects of plant production, horticultural crops and plant biotechnology taught in official degrees of the ETS of Agronomic Engineering and Biosciences (ETSIAB) of the UPNA. She has supervised 3 Doctoral Theses, 10 Master's Theses/Final Projects and more than 40 Degree Final Projects.

She has been Academic Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Production in the period 2010-2012, Deputy Director of the ETSIAB and responsible for the Degree in Agri-Food and Rural Engineering in the period 2012-2015, Director of the Area of Management and Quality of Degrees of the Vice-Rectorate of Teaching in the period 2015-2019, and Vice-Rector of Teaching of the UPNA in the period 2019-2025.