Lab Alumni
Graduate Students
Carmen Herrero Matesanz. Ph.D. degree "Mechanisms that control de release of arachidonic acid: Role of the PI-PLC" 1984-1989 (Thesis advisor). Department of Experimental Medicine, Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Eugenia Cornet. Ph.D. degree "Hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine by phospholipase C. Role of Ras and GAP" 1989-1992 (Thesis advisor). Department of Experimental Medicine, Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Isabel Dominguez. Ph.D. degree "Role of zPKC in mitogenic signaling and NF-kB activation" 1990-1994. (Thesis advisor). CBM-CSIC. Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Laura Sanz. Ph.D. degree "Transcriptional activation of the gene for stromelysin-1" 1991-1996. (Thesis advisor). CBM-CSIC. Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Edurne Berra Ramirez. Ph.D. degree "Mitogenic signaling through the Ras oncogen and the PCPLC pathway" 1992-1996. (Thesis advisor). CBM-CSIC. Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Jose Lozano. Ph.D. degree "Identification of hnRNPA1 as a novel substrate for zPKC" 1992-1997. (Thesis advisor) CBM-CSIC. Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Maria del Mar Municio. Ph.D. degree "Identification and characterization of novel regulators of the atypical PKCs" 1992-1997. (Thesis advisor) CBM-CSIC. Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Pilar Sanchez. 1998-2000. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Investigador Titular (Principal Investigator), Head of Neuro-oncology unit, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Sonia Frutos. Ph.D. degree "Mechanisms of regulation of Par-4 during the induction of apoptosis" 1996-2000 (Thesis advisor) CBM-CSIC. Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Angeles Duran. Ph.D. degree 2000-2006 “Characterization of signalling pathways in PKCz knockout mice” (co-mentored with Dr. Maria T. Diaz-Meco) CBM-CSIC. Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Miguel Reina Campos. Ph.D. degree “Increased Serine and One-Carbon Pathway Metabolism by PKCl/i Deficiency Promotes Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer” 2015-2019. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, La Jolla. Currently, postdoctoral associate at the Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Edurne Berra, Ph.D. 1996-1997. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Principal Investigator/Group Leader, Cancer Cell Signaling and Metabolism Lab, CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao, Spain.
M.Jose Lallena, Ph.D. 1997-1998. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Director Quantitative Biology at Eli Lilly and Company, Madrid, Spain.
Guillermo Cárcer, Ph.D. 1997-1998. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Senior Research Scientist, Research Group Leader, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de Madrid, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Laura Sanz, Ph.D. 1996-200. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Biology Manager, Diseases of the Developing World, GlaxoSmithKline, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Christine Bezombes, Ph.D. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Researcher INSERM U1037 Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Toulouse, France.
M. José Lafuente, Ph.D. 2000-2003. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Investigator at GlaxoSmithKline, Madrid, Spain.
Antonia Avila, Ph.D. 2001-2002. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Senior Scientist, National Center for Biotechnology-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
M. José Carrascosa, Ph.D. 2002-2004. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain.
Pilar Martin, Ph.D. 2001-2006. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Assistant Professor at Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.
Angelina Rodriguez, Ph.D. 2003-2006. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Investigador-Docente Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico.
Ruth Alvarez, Ph.D. 2005-2006. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Scientific Researcher, CBM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Georgios Karamanlidis, Ph.D. 2006. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati. Currently, Senior Scientist at Amgen, Newbury Park, CA.
Anita Galvez, Ph.D. 2007-2010. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati. Investigador academica, Unidad Biologia Celular y Molecular-Genetica, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile.
Jun-Qi Yang, Ph.D. 2007-2010. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati. Currently, Research Assistant Professor, Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH
Jayashree Joshi, Ph.D. 2007-2009. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati. Currently, Scientist-II at Avida Biomed Inc., Dublin, CA.
Ramars Amanchy, Ph.D. 2007-2010. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati. Currently, Scientist at CSIR-IICT Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Mei Dei, Ph.D. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati. Currently, Pharmacologist at Medpace, Cincinnati, Ohio
Li Ma, Ph.D. 2009-2013. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati; SBP, La Jolla. Currently, Clinical Scientist at Biotheranostics, Inc. San Diego, CA.
Sang-Jun Lee, Ph.D. 2007-2013. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati; SBP, La Jolla. Currently, Staff Scientist at Nitto Biopharma, San Diego, CA.
Ji-Young Kim, Ph.D. 2007-2014. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati; SBP, La Jolla. Currently, Senior Scientist at Ambrx, San Diego, CA.
Ana Rodriguez-Archidona, Ph.D. 2010-2012. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati; SBP, La Jolla. Currently, Research Assistant Bioinformatics, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Victoria Llado. Ph.D. 2011-2014. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Chief Scientific Officer, Laminar Pharma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Tania Valencia, Ph.D. 2011- 2014. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Senior Scientist at Regulus Therapeutics
Philip Shelton, Ph.D. 2013-2018. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Intellectual Property Legal Intern at JONES DAY; J.D. Candidate, San Diego, CA.
Yuki Nakanishi, M.D., Ph.D. 2013-2018. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Community-Based Medical System, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Jean-François Groulx, Ph.D. 2013-2015. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
Eloy Hernandez, Ph.D. 2012- 2016. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Investigator II at Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA.
Naoko Nakanishi, M.D., Ph.D. 2014-2018. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Assistant professor, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Adam Burgoyne, M.D., Ph.D. 2015. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego Health, San Diego, CA.
Enrico Milan, Ph.D. 2015. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Scientific Researcher, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, IT.
Takayuki Goto, M.D., Ph.D. 2015. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan.
Octavio Romero, Ph.D. 2015. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, AECC Investigator at Fundación Josep Carreras contra la Leucemia, Barcelona, Spain.
Jianfeng Huang, Ph.D. 2015-2020. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Yotaro Kudo, M.D., Ph.D. 2016-2020. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Hiroaki Kasashima, M.D., Ph.D. 2016-Present. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla and Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
Antoine L’Hermitte. Ph.D. 2017-2020. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Masayuki Sugimoto, Ph.D. 2018-2019. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Investigator, Drug Discovery & Disease Research Laboratory, SHIONOGI & CO., LTD.
Nadia Senni, Ph.D. 2017-2019. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla. Currently, Scientific Project Officer, Agence Nationale de la Reserche (ANR), Paris, France.
Umberto Rosato, Ph.D. 2020. Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
Visiting Scientists:
Robert S. Chapkin, Assitant Professor, Texas A & M University. 1992. Role of zPKC in mitogenic signaling. Department of Experimental Medicine, Hospital Gregorio Mara..n, Madrid, Spain.
Victor Diaz-Golpe, Staff researcher Hospital de Leon, Spain. 1992. NF-kB regulation through the PKC pathway. Department of Experimental Medicine, Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain.
Marie W. Wooten, Ph.D. (Cellular and Molecular Biology), Professor, Auburn University, Alabama. 1999. The atypical PKCs during NGF signaling. CBM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Geir Bjorkoy, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Tromso. 1998. Currently, Professor, Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Nancy Laurin, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Laval University of Quebec. 2003.
Sandra Rodriguez-Mascareñas, Graduate Student, University of Rio de Janeiro. 2004. Investigator, Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil.
Antonio Garcia de Herreros, Professor, University of Barcelona. 2018. Role of Snail in CAF activation by p62. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Mireia Duñac, Professor, University of Barcelona. 2018. The canonical and non-canonical Wnt pathways in the intestinal stem cell population. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Anxo Martinez, Graduate Student, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 2018. Currently, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
Technical Staff:
Esther Garcia. 1996-2006. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain
Carmen Ibañez. 1996-2001. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain
Beatriz Ranera. 1996-1998. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain
Esther Fuertes. 2001-2006. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain
Desiree Ruiz. 2003-2006. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain
Juan Jose Lazcano. 2003-2005. Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, Madrid, Spain
Michael Winstead. 2006-2008. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Lyndsey Bolanos. 2006-2011. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Sara Lazaro. 2006-2011. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Emily Kellner. 2008-2011. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Jasmine Kang. 2011. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Joolz Ward. 2011. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Tomoko Yajima. 2011-2014. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Nahid Hamidy. 2012. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Wei Liu. 2014-2016. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Ksenia Pisarchuk. 2016. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Sarah Gilmour. 2016-2018. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Alyssa Ruelos. 2018-2020. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Undergraduate Research Students:
Lory Ray. Summer 2007. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Thomas D. Filardo. Summers 2007, 2008. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Ilya Bratslavsky. Summer 2007. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Adams Safi. Summer 2008. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Anna Valentine. Summers 2008, 2009. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Courtney Thomas. Summers 2009, 2010. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
David Long, Summer Fellow sponsored by the RGE SURF program, 2009. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Stephanie Johnson. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Andrew Plassard. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
Jessica Leung. 2011-2013. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Donald Lu. 2016-2018. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Amanda Delgado. 2017-2018. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.
Julian Mercado. 2018-2020. SBP Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla.