Molecular Biology

PhD in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)

Barcelona, Spain - Ana Janic is a Tenure-Track Professor at the Experimental and Health Sciences Department at Pompeu Fabra University (DCEXS-UPF). She studied Molecular Biology and Physiology at the University of Belgrade and completed her master research studies at European Molecular Biology Laboratories (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany. She obtained PhD in Biomedicine at Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB- Barcelona) in 2011. During her PhD, she studied the molecular basis of cancer using Drosophila as a model organism. After completing PhD, she moved to Andreas Strasser laboratory at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia. Her studies helped to uncover how p53 prevents the development of cancer, including identifying DNA repair as an essential process for p53-mediated tumor suppression. In 2018 she established her independent research group at DCEXS-UPF and her research program is dedicated to understanding the complex p53 tumour suppression transcriptional network in different tissues and in the context of distinct oncogenic drivers.

PhD in Genetics (UB)

Maria Cinta Pegueroles has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology (2006) and a PhD in Genetics (2010) from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Fundació Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques (FIMIM), the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB), the Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and as a research engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is currently an associate lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona and a course instructor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

She is a biologist specialising in genetics and bioinformatics. Her main research interests are population genomics, evolution and adaptation. Her overall goal is to understand how genomes evolve using large-scale data; in particular, she is interested in understanding the genetic basis of adaptation and deciphering the functionality of long non-coding genes, as well as their role in genome evolution and adaptation. To do so, she uses both an evolutionary perspective that provides information of ancient events and a population perspective that provides information about more recent events.

PhD in Biomedicine (UPF)

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.