Marina obtained the Degree of Biotechnology from Pablo de Olavide University in 2019, having studied for a semester in Presbyterian College (SC, USA) thanks to an Atlanticus Santander scholarship. During this period, she was an intern in the laboratory of Dr. Fernando Govantes in the Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering Department, where she conducted her Bachelor Thesis about microbial biofilms. She followed these investigations for a year during an Erasmus+ internship in Universität Hamburg (Germany), specifically in Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit's lab.
While obtaining an MSc in Biomedical Biotechnology from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2022) she worked as an intern in AINIA, where she also conducted her master thesis. In the cell culture lab, led by Dr. Lidia Tomás, she set the basis of 3D bioprinting for the development of preclinical diagnostic cellular models.
In May 2022, she joined the Intergenomics group in the IBBTEC to write her PhD thesis under the supervision Fernando de la Cruz and Raúl Fernández.
Intergenomics
Research lines
– Evolution and Ecology:
• Classification of conjugative and mobilizable plasmids based on their relaxase sequences.
• Conjugative systems of Cyanobacteria and Actinomycetes.
– Molecular Engines: Protein and DNA transporters across bacterial membranes
– Protein Engineering: Conjugative relaxases as a target for the inhibition of the dissemination of antibiotic resistance.
– Systems Biology
Funding
- Nuevas estrategias para el control de infecciones nosocomiales. INNOECO RTC-2015-3184-1.
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“Promover el desarrollo tecnológico, la innovación y una investigación de calidad” |
- Plásmidos ortogonales para Biología Sintética y de Sistemas. Ministerio de Educación (BFU2011-26608).
- Bacterial Computing with Engineered Populations (BACTOCOM). European Union 7th Framework. Programme, Area Information and Communication Technologies (FP7-ICT-2009-4; Proyecto nº 248919).
- EVOTAR: Evolution and transfer of antibiotic resistance (Project no. 282004). European Union FP7-HEALTH 2011.2.3.1-2.
- Diversidad y distribución de plásmidos de bacterias ácido-lácticas. Acción Integrada Hispano-Serbia. PRI-AIBSE-2011-1186. IP: Fernando de la Cruz
- INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA DE ESCHERICHIA COLI PARA MEJORAR LA PRODUCCIÓN DE LÍPIDOS RICOS EN ÁCIDOS GRASOS OMEGA-3 (TF16-XX-003), cofinanciado por SODERCAN S.A. y el Programa Operativo FEDER
