I always felt curious about how a particular gene is only expressed when and where is needed (a.k.a: gene expression regulation). That is why during my PhD I studied the gene expression regulation mediated by HD-Zip I transcription factors in Arabidopsis thaliana, focusing on the natural function of several members of this family, both in normal grown conditions and during different kind of abiotic stresses (drought, cold, salinity). Doing so I learned a lot about transcriptional regulation, but at the end of the PhD I dive into another amazing world, which is translational regulation... Since then I am fascinated about how little we understand about it and how much potential there is in there for crop biotechnology, synthetic biology, molecular farming and many other fields...