Position: Coordinators of the project

  • Teresa Adell

    Teresa Adell

    • PhD in Biology in 2000, about cell specification in exocrine pancreas cancer (Thesis Director Dr. FX Real)
    • Postdoctoral experience since 2000. First studying the development in sponges and from 2004 studying planarians regeneration. 
    • Lecturer Professor of Genetics since 2013.
    • About 40 articles in indexed journals, including ‘Development’ and ‘Plos Biology’.
    • Supervisor of 6 PhD Thesis and a number of Master Thesis.
  • Emili Saló

    Emili Saló

    • Professor of Genetics since 1985 and Full Professor since 2003.
    • Head of the Department of Genetics of the UB during 12 years. 
    • About 60 articles in indexed journals.
    • Supervisor of 20 PhD Thesis
    • Pioneer and International reference in the study of regeneration using Planarians as a model.
  • Bernat Burriel

    Bernat Burriel

    • Predoctoral researcher in Systematics, Biogeography and Evolution of Reptiles and Amphibians Lab at IBE with an FPU fellowship. Studying the processes of diversification, distribution and colonization of reptiles in arid environments.
    • BSc in Environmental Biology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and MSc in Biodiversity at Universitat de Barcelona.
    • MSc thesis at IBE, assessing the diversity, distribution, phylogeny and conservation of terrestrial reptiles in the United Arab Emirates.
    • Research technician in the Spanish National Project: Arabian reptiles as a model to investigate how biodiversity is generated and maintained in arid regions.
    • Project Manager and outreach technician at Observatori de Difusió de la Ciència (ODC-UAB)
  • Mattia Menchetti

    Mattia Menchetti

    • Predoctoral researcher at IBE with a “la Caixa” Doctoral Fellowship INPhINIT Retaining, working on the project “The genetic map of European ants”.
    • Former Research Assistant at the University of Florence (Italy), working on Mediterranean butterfly phylogeography.
    • Former Research Assistant at IBE, working on a National Geographic Society founded project on Citizen Science and butterfly migrations.
    • Former active member of the EU COST funded project ParrotNet, an European network of scientists, practitioners and policy-makers dedicated to research on invasive alien parrots.
    • Master Degree in Biology at the University of Florence (Italy).
  • Patricia Suárez Ara

    Patricia Suárez Ara

    • Predoctoral researcher in Multicell Genome Lab at IBE with an FPI fellowship. Developing genetic tools to study unicellular relatives of animals and the origin of animal multicellularity
    • BSc in Biology and MSc in Biomolecules and Cell Dynamics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
    • Bachelor’s thesis at Spanish National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) learning molecular and cellular biology techniques
    • Master’s thesis at IMDEA Nanociencia Institute applying a diverse variety of molecular biology and chemical techniques in an interdisciplinary team
  • Leonardo Platania

    Leonardo Platania

    • Predoctoral researcher at IBE with an FPI fellowship. Studying evolution and biodiversity of Western Pacific leaf-beetles (Chrysomelidae, eumolpinae).
    • Former Research Assistant at the University of Florence (Italy), working on conservation of the butterfly Zerynthia cassandra Geyer, 1828 population in Elba island.
    • Master Degree in Biology at the University of Florence (Italy), with a thesis on the social-wasp Polistes dominula (Christ, 1791) communication.
    • Erasmus internship at IBE, working on a project on cryptic species of European Butterflies.
    • Bachelor degree in Biology at the University of Florence (Italy) with a thesis on the urban ant diversity in Florence.
  • Gemma Isabel Martínez

    Gemma Isabel Martínez

    • Studying the genomic basis of terrestrialization in arthropods at Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab at IBE
    • Research stay as an Amgen scholar at the University of Cambridge (Department of Zoology)
    • BSc Degree in Genetics and MSc Degree in Bioinformatics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
    • MSc thesis at the Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina (IBB) integrating population genomics and transcriptomics to estimating adaptation in humans
    • Active member of QuinteScience, youth scientific association involved in the organization of activities such as the Spanish Junior Science Olympiad
  • Sergi Rodà

    Sergi Rodà

    • Degree in Biochemistry by Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB).
    • MSc in Bioinformatics by Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB).
    • PhD student in Computational biochemistry in the Life Science Department at the BSC.
  • Javier Argüello Luengo

    Javier Argüello Luengo

    • Currently, postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Optics Theory group at ICFO, led by Prof. Maciej Lewenstein.
    • Graduated in Physics and Mathematics from University Complutense of Madrid (UCM). PhD studies at ICFO and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany).
    • MSc at the Perimeter Scholars International program (PSI) from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada).
    • Research interests focus on experimental proposals for strong light-matter interaction, and its use in analogue quantum simulation.
    • Collaborates with the outreach department at ICFO and Big Van Ciencia.
  • Elena Fusari

    Elena Fusari

    • Degree in Biotechnology at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna.
    • Erasmus+ at the University of Valencia.
    • Master of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna.
    • Master Thesis at the IRB Barcelona in Marco Milán’s group.
    • Internship at the UCL, London.
    •  1st year PhD with a La Caixa fellowship in Marco Milán’s group at the IRB Barcelona.
    • Participated in outreach activities at the IRB such as the Open Day to the public 2020.
    • Experience with tutoring high school students in Science.