Morena Tinte

Morena Tinte is a postdoctoral researcher in Biochemistry at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, specialising in computational and plant metabolomics. His master's and doctoral studies focused on understanding plant-environmental interactions such as drought, salinity and biotic stresses, and investigated how biostimulants influence plant growth and defence using LC‑MS‑based metabolomics and advanced computational approaches. Currently, his research is focused on discovering plant and microbial bioactive metabolites with therapeutic potential against a range of diseases.

For his five-month secondment at the Spanish National Research Council - Zaidín Experimental Station, under the guidance of Dr. Pavel Kerchev and the ROS and Nitric Oxide Signaling and Peroxisomal Dynamics in Plants group, Morena will analyse proteomic and metabolomic datasets generated by previous secondees to determine how the Laminaria extract L1 biostimulant impacts tomato and Arabidopsis plants at the proteome level. He will also characterise the metabolic composition of rosemary extracts that exhibit biostimulant activity.