People
Borja Ibarra
Researcher
Borja Ibarra received his PhD. in Molecular Biology from Universidad Autónoma Madrid in 2001. He made the ‘leap’ to molecular biophysics as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Carlos Bustamante lab at UC Berkeley. Back in Spain in 2007, he applied single molecule manipulation methods as optical tweezers at the CNB-CSIC (Madrid) to study biological molecular motors at single molecule level. He joined the Nanobiosystems department at IMDEA Nanoscience in 2010, where he started the Molecular Motors Nanomanipulation Lab.
Rebeca Bocanegra
IMDEA Staff / Researcher
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, 2011, Universidad Autónoma Madrid.
During her Ph.D. she studied intermolecular interactions in viral assembly and viral assembly inhibition using the mature HIV capsid as a model system. As a postdoc, she worked in the National Center of Biotechnology to study the relation between protein structure, macromolecular interactions and physiological function of protein complexes. In March 2018, Rebeca joined our lab as a staff scientist.
Carlos Rodriguez Pulido
Ph.D. Student
M.S in Biophysics 2017, Universidad Autónoma Madrid.
Carlos is currently studying the mechanical properties of ssRNA and the transcriptional dynamics of influenza A virus at the single-molecule level.
Ismael Plaza
Ph.D. Student
B.S in Biochemistry, 2017. Universidad Complutense Madrid.
M.S. in Biotechnology, 2018. Universidad Autónoma Madrid.
Ismael studies the real-time kinetics and mechano-chemistry of individual human mitochondrial replisomes.
María Ortiz Rodriguez
Ph.D. Student
B.S in Experimental Sciences, 2019. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
M.S in Computational Biology 2019, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Her work is focused on understanding the stoichiometry and dynamics of the human mitochondrial DNA replication machinery.
LYRA ZUMETA
Ph.D. Student
B.S in Biochemisrty 2022, Universidad Autónoma Madrid.
M.S in Biophysics 2023, Universidad Autónoma Madrid.
Lyra is currently studying the effect of temperature on the real-time kinetics of the human mitochondrial replisome
Beatriz de Vicente
B.S in Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (EHU/UPV, 2015) y en Biotecnología (EHU/UPV, 2017)
MD Nanociencias y Nanotecnología-Nanobiofísica (Universidad Grenoble Alpes, Francia, 2019).
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Former lab members
Jose A. Morin
Currently at BIOTEC: TU Dresden Ph.D.
Atena Naeimi
Assistant Professor at University of Jiroft (Iran).
Fernando Cerrón
Currently at Quiron Salud, Madrid.
Sara De Lorenzo
Currently at Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain
Kateryna Lemishko
Currently at King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS