Javier Gallego Bartolomé. Group leader. CSIC researcher
Javier studied agronomical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). He got his Ph.D. in the lab of Drs Miguel Blazquez and David Alabadí (IBMCP, Valencia, Spain) and then did two postdocs, one in the Chory Lab (The Salk Institute, CA, US) and a longer one in the Jacobsen Lab (UCLA, CA, US). In 2020, he joined the IBMCP as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow to start his own group. Since 2024, he is a CSIC tenured researcher (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2225-7168)
Borja Diego Martín. Graduate student FPU fellow
Borja studied biotechnology at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). He joined the Orzaez lab at the IBMCP to do his Master´s thesis and after a short internship in the Marí-Ordoñez lab (GMI, Vienna), he joined the lab to start his Ph.D with a FPU fellowship. He is studying the function of the TPF proteins as components of a plant SWI/SNF remodeler
Joan Candela Ferré. Graduate student FPI fellow
Joan studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona). He joined the lab in February 2021 to do his Master´s thesis to work on factors involved in the recruitment to chromatin of remodelers and histone modifiers. During this time he was awarded a JAE-Intro fellowship. He is now a grad student working on the functional characterization on Snf2 remodelers in plants
Jaime Pérez Alemany. Graduate student ACIF fellow
Jaime studied Biology at the University of Valencia (Spain). He joined the lab in February 2021 to do his Master´s thesis on bioinformatic analyses of several epigenomics datasets. During this time he was awarded a JAE-Intro fellowship. He is now a grad student in the lab studying the impact of diverse Snf2 remodelers on transcription.
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Carlos Gámez Álvarez. Graduate student​. MSCA fellow Co-directed with Dr Alabadí (IBMCP)
Carlos studied Biology at the University of Granada (Spain). After doing his Master's thesis in the same university, he joined the Molecular Microbiology lab at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) as a Research technician and later he worked as a Lab technician at Tropic Biosciences ldt (Norwich, UK). In 2023, he joined the lab to start his PhD as a fellow in a Marie Skłdowska-Curie Doctoral Network (Episeedlink) to study how the DELLA proteins regulate transcription in the context of chromatin.
Alexia Tornesaki, PhD Postdoctoral fellow
Alexia studied crop science at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Warwick, UK working on the impact of epigenetics on plant immunity in the Ntoukakis lab. She joined the Gallego lab in December 2023 as a postdoctoral researcher to study the role of ATP-dependent chromatin remodellers in cell reprogramming in plants.
Filippo Battaglia. UniMI-UGA Master´s student
After completing his degree on Biological Sciences at the Palermo University, Filippo joined the UniMI-UGA master’s course in Plant Science, a double degree course between the University of Milan and the University of Grenoble Alps. After two short internships in the Perella’s Lab (UniMI) and the Carles’s Lab (LPCV), he joined the lab to work in his master’s thesis.
Eduardo Parreño García. IBMCG Master´s student student​
Eduardo studied Biotechnology at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Albacete, Spain), where he was also hired as I+D technician in the Molecular Biology Lab in the Botanical Institute. He joined the Master's Degree in Molecular, Cellular and Genetic Biology Research at the University of Valencia in September 2023. He joined the lab in January 2024 to work in his master's thesis.