Carme Cortina

Contact details:

Role

Lecturer

Qualifications

PhD in Biomedicine (UPF)

Biography

Carme Cortina Duran graduated in biology (2004) and has a PhD in Biomedicine from UPF (2009). Since 2013 she has been a senor postdoc in the colorectal cancer research group at IRB Barcelona. She has extensive experience in the use of the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic editing system, which she adapted to carry out several projects centred on the study of intratumoral cellular heterogeneity. She has jointly supervised a PhD thesis and a Master’s Degree Final Project.

Subjects they teach

Subject
Programme
Typology

Molecular Biology

Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics

Core

Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics

Description

This course covers the main aspects of cell structure and function in eukaryotes and prokaryotes cells. The course also explores the molecular mechanisms of replications, transcription and translation, and its regulation and control.

Subject of the 2020-2021 teaching plan.

Code:
51208

Créditos:
6 ECTS

Language:
English

Type of subject: Core