- PhD in Cellular Biology and Physiology by the University of Bologna (Italy) studying the cellular transport of the anticancer drug taxol in Taxus baccata cell cultures.
- Former Postdoctoral researcher at the IBMB-CSIC studying the transcriptional regulation of lignin synthesis in maize.
- Former Postdoctoral researcher at CRAG (Plant metabolism and metabolic engineering program) working in maize lignocellulose bioengineering to improve bioethanol production.
- Currently, IRTA postdoctoral researcher at CRAG working in opium poppy breeding. Her current research aims to identify rusticity-related traits from opium poppy wild accessions and introgress them into the genetic background of elite breeding lines.
- Expertise in Plant Biotechnology, Physiology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
Position: Coordinators of the project
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Sílvia Fornalé
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Emilio Pisanty
- Degree in Physics from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- PhD in Controlled Quantum Dynamics from Imperial College London, researching the role of classical trajectories in the optical tunnel effect
- Postdoctoral Researcher at the Quantum Optics Theory group at ICFO, led by Prof. Maciej Lewenstein
- Research interests include strong-field physics, ultrafast optics, topological physics and optical
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Cèsar Sierra
- Graduated on Biotechnology at University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2016.
- Bachelor Thesis at German Cancer Research Center (Germany) in 2016.
- Master’s Degree in Genetics at Paris Diderot University (France) in 2017.
- PhD student working on understanding the contribution of epigenetic alterations to the transcriptional alterations in Down syndrome at CRG (Spain).
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Isabel Espejo
- Graduated on Biotechnology at University of Pablo de Olavide (Spain) in 2016.
- Bachelor Thesis at Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology (Spain) in 2016.
- Master’s Degree in Genetics at Paris Diderot University (France) in 2017.
- Master Thesis at Institute Curie (France) in 2016.
- PhD student working on understanding the regulation of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 in adult stem cells and cancer.
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Javier Macía
- Associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- Coordinator the Biomedical engineering degree.
- Head of the Synthetic Biology for Biomedical Applications Lab.
- Coordinator of the Systems Bioengineering Research Program.
- Co-funder of BIOM, a new biotechnological-based company.
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Roberto Rubio
- BSc in Mathematics, Universitat de València. MSc in Mathematics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
- Phd in Mathematics, University of Oxford (2015) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2012).
- Fellow of the United Kingdom Higher Education Academy since 2014.
- Postdoctoral researcher at IMPA (Brazil), Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), and Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
- ‘Currently, Ramón y Cajal researcher at UAB
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Marc Masdeu
- Number theorist, working at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as a Ramón y Cajal researcher. Mainly interested in explicit methods for arithmetic geometry.
- Obtained M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics at U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Ph.D. at McGill University (Montréal) in 2010.
- Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University (New York, 2010-2013), and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick (Marie Curie Fellow) ) (UK, 2014-2016).
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Lydia Giménez-Llort
- Third woman in Spain as Full Professor on Psychiatry.
- Expert in Healthy Aging and Translational Behavioral Neuroscience
- Member Observatory for Equality at UAB Commission, Head at School of Medicine, Nursery and Physioteraphy
- Member of European COST-Action Td1005, experts on Pain in impaired cognition, especially Dementias.
- Spanish leader Fet-OPen-Project for research and innovation around news ideas towards radically new future technologies in Science
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Raül Andero
- ICREA Research Professor at UAB.
- Previous positions at Emory and Harvard.
- The laboratory studies Translational Mechanisms of Fear Memories.
- Lead author of publications in top journals such as Neuron, Science Translational Medicine and Biological Psychiatry.
- Expertise in combining data in both humans and animal models in the neuroscience field.
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Laura Pérez
- Degree in Biology by University of Girona (UdG) and PhD in Mental Health by University of Cadiz (UCA).
- Expertise in animal models of neuropsychiatric diseases, focusing in behavioral paradigms and molecular techniques.
- Postdoctoral researcher in the Neurobiology of stress and vulnerability to psychopathology group at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
- Her current research aims to identify novel biomarkers for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by using animal models.