Professors
Prof. Andone Estonba
Andone Estonba recently obtained positive assessment to join the University Teaching Body of Professors. She is interested in the application of DNA variation analysis to practical topics of Biosciences area using three main approaches…
Lecturers
Dr. Mikel Iriondo
Mikel Iriondo is lecturer of Human Evolution and Anthropogenetics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He is interested in the application of DNA variation analysis to practical aspects in the area of Bioscience using three main…
Dr. Carmen Manzano
Carmen Manzano is lecturer of Physical Anthropology and Human Evolution at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). After a period in which her research focused on anthropogenetic studies, her current main interest is…
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr. Iratxe Zarraonaindia
Iratxe Zarraonaindia is currently an Ikerbasque Research Fellow. She holds a PhD in Marine Population Genetics (PhD title: Population genetic structure of the European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus), October 2011) which she obtained …
Dr. Iratxe Montes
Iratxe Montes holds an international PhD in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Population genetics of European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in the Bay of Biscay, June 2014) …
Dr. Melanie Parejo
Melanie Parejo has a life science background in the fields of ecology, evolution and environmental sciences. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Bern, Switzerland…
PhD students
Pablo Markaide
Pablo Markaide is carrying out his University of the Basque Country, where he studied Biology (undergraduate) and also holds a M. Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine (1 year). His first experiences of research as biology…
Jorge Langa
Jorge Langa has a degree in Mathematics from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Zaragoza (UZ). He also has an M. Sc. in Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation by the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), France…
Igor Baroja
Igor Baroja has a degree in Chemistry from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) focusing in Analytics in the University of Montreal, in Canada. He also has an M.Sc. Forensic Analytics from the same university,…
External collaborators
Dr. Otsanda Ruiz-Larrañaga
Otsanda Ruiz-Larrañaga won in 2013 the special award with her PhD project in Biological Sciences at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (PhD title: Association study of candidate genes for susceptibility to…
Dr. Ana Marta Muñoz-Colmenero
Marta Muñoz-Colmenero helds a FPU National Spanish Grant (reference AP-2010-5211) to do the PhD in Functional and Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain) with a three month collaboration stay at the University of Southern California (USC) …
Dr. Mikel Aguirre
Mikel Aguirre has a phd in Biology from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His research is related to metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis of estuarine waters in order to identify bacteria species and their role in the ecosystem…
Dr. David Abad
Dr. David Abad has a phd in Biology from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His research is related to metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis of estuarine waters in order to identify zooplankton speciesand their role in the ecosystem…
Dr. Aitor Albaina
Aitor holds a PhD in Biological Sciences (PhD title: “Relationships between mesoscale oceanographic structures and zooplankton communities in the Bay of Biscay”; AZTI-Tecnalia, July 2007). His research line is the application of traditional (microscopy) and molecular (DNA based) methods …
Dr. Mikel Egaña Aranguren
I obtained a Biology degree from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Spain) in 2003, then completed a Bioinformatics MSc (2004) and Computer Science PhD (2009) at the University of Manchester, UK. This included a Marie Curie placement at…
SGIker technicians
Dr. Irati Miguel
Irati Miguel holds a PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (PhD title: Genetic, morphometric and ethologic study of Apis mellifera from Western Europe and applications for conservation purposes…
Dr. Fernando Rendo
Fernando Rendo holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (PhD title: Forensic and Population Genetics in ovine, bovine and equine local breeds of the Basque Country and Navarre…