Speakers

Guadalupe Sabio
Group Leader, CNIC
researchgate.net: Guadalupe_Sabio2
@gsabiolab

Guadalupe Sabio graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the Universidad de Extremadura in 2000. Her PhD, under the direction of Dr. Ana Cuenda and Francisco Centeno, was conducted both at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit in Dundee, UK and at the Universidad de Extremadura. Her thesis work demonstrated the redundant function of p38-gamma and p38 delta, and showed that both kinases can phosphorylate SAP97 and SAP90.

For her postdoc Guadalupe moved to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, MA), to work with Dr. Roger Davis. Her work in this period focused on the tissue-specific roles of JNK1, using mice with conditional deletion of JNK1 in different tissues. Through this work she was able to make important contributions to the understanding of the tissue-specific roles of JNK1 and its implication in the pathogenesis of type II diabetes.

Guadalupe returned to Spain in 2009 with a Ramón y Cajal contract to study diseases associated with obesity (diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer). She joined the CNIC in 2011.

Javier Peláez
Science Journalist at Yahoo España, El Español and El País
linkedin.com: Javier Peláez
@irreductible

Francisco Javier Peláez Perez (Puertollano, 1974) has devoted his work to science dissemination. He develops his own projects and ideas being the author of La Aldea Irreductible, co-founder and editor of Naukas.com and co-author of Catástrofe Ultravioleta. He also collaborates with different and important institutions being the responsible for Science and Astronomy sections at Yahoo Spain or being involved in Ciencia al Cubo in RNE. He collaborates also with other media as QUO Magazine, Diario de Avisos, Vox Populi or RTVE.

Jose Miguel Mulet:
Group Leader, IBMCP (CSIC)
linkedin.com: Jose Miguel Mulet Salort
@jmmulet
researchgate.net: Jose Miguel Mulet Salort

Jose Miguel Mulet Salort was born in Denia in 1973. He obtained a BSc in Chemistry in 1996 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, obtaining the PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the same university in 2001. After his work at Basilea’s University in Switzerland from 2003 and 2008 he currently teaches biotechnology at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. At the same time, he leads a research group at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Plant, seeking to develop drought and cold tolerant plants. He also directs the Master in Molecular Biotechnology and Plant Cell while working actively as scientific disseminator. He is author of books such as “Productos Naturles ¡Vaya Timo!” or “Comer Sin Miedo” (Prisms Award 2014 for the best science book published in Castilian). In addition, he is the author of the section “Ciencia sin Ficción” at El País Semanal.

FameLab
International Science Monologue Contest
www.famelab.es
youtube.com/famelab
@famelab

FameLab is an international competition based on scientific monologues. It was born as a part of the Cheltenham Science Festival in 2005 with the aim of science dissemination. Since 2007, thanks to the partnership with the British Council, FameLab is all around the world, and it is today celebrated in more than 25 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. More than 5,000 scientists have participated in this idea since the beginning and 5 of them are going to present their monologues along the day.

Meet the famelabbers that will join us at CNIC PhDay 2016 here.