Nieves Vidal González has working in the Plant Production Department of the Biological Mission of Galicia of the Spanish Council of Scientific Research (MBG-CSIC) since 1991. I graduated with a degree in biology in 1988 (Univ of Santiago de Compostela) and defended my PhD in 2002. My main interests include the micropropagation of woody plants (camellia, fruit trees, chestnut, common and cork oak, willow, birch, alder, etc.), focusing on phase change markers, quantitation of plant growth regulators, adventitious rooting, germplasm conservation (including cryopreservation), genetic stability analysis, genetic transformation, and the use of bioreactors under mixotrophic and autotrophic conditions. My scientific production can be classified in four main groups: i) rooting and its relationship with phase change, ii) germplasm conservation, iii) genetic transformation and iv) the development of micropropagation protocols. I am a member of the Spanish Society of Plant Cell Tissue Culture.