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People

Borja Ibarra

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.

borja.ibarra@gmail.com
borja.ibarra@imdea.org

Rebeca Bocanegra

Rebeca Bocanegra

IMDEA Staff / Researcher

B.S. in Biochemistry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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.

rebeca.bocanegra@imdea.org

Carlos Rodriguez Pulido

Carlos Rodriguez Pulido

Ph.D. Student

B.S in Physics 2016, Universidad Complutense Madrid.
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.

carlos.rodriguez1692@gmail.com

Ismael Plaza

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.

ismael.plaza@imdea.org

María Ortiz Rodriguez

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.

maria.ortiz@imdea.org

LYRA ZUMETA

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

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).

This can be you!!

This can be you!!

We are always welcome informal enquiries from potential pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows.

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Former lab members

Jose A. Morin

Jose A. Morin

Currently at BIOTEC: TU Dresden Ph.D.

jmlantero@gmail.com

Atena Naeimi

Atena Naeimi

Assistant Professor at University of Jiroft (Iran).

at_naimi@yahoo.com

Fernando Cerrón

Fernando Cerrón

Currently at Quiron Salud, Madrid.

fercerron@gmail.com

Sara De Lorenzo

Sara De Lorenzo

Currently at Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain

sara.delorenzo@imdea.org

Kateryna Lemishko

Kateryna Lemishko

Currently at King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS

kate.lemishko@gmail.com