In 2006, I started my PhD thesis at the University of Perpignan working in the gene expression analysis in an African strain of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae during the interaction with rice at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement) in Montpellier, France. In November 2009, I obtained a PhD in Biology. Then, I had a first post-doc position from 2010 to 2012 in the Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants at EEZ (Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC) in Granada, Spain. In February 2012, I joined the Department of Molecular Genetics at CRAG (http://www.cragenomica.es/). I have conducted postdoctoral research activities in the framework of the project “Regulatory roles of microRNAs in plant innate immunity”. Since March 2015, I have been a PhD researcher at Agrosavia (https://www.agrosavia.co/), in Colombia.