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…
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 an Ikerbasque Research Associate. Her research is focused on metagenomics to determine the functional potential and taxonomic structure of a variety of ecosystems, e.g agricultural soils, vineyards.
Dr. Melanie Parejo
The reserach focus of Melanie Parejo lies on analyzing European honey bee population structure using whole-genome sequencing data, and identifying and applying subspecies informative SNP markers to breeding and conservation.
PhD students
Jorge Langa
With a background in Mathematics and Bioinformatics Jorge Langa is developing computational methods to study the genetic relationships between Clupeiformes for his PhD project. He has also participated in the analysis and development of SNP markers for acuaculture and …
Igor Baroja
The PhD project of Igor Baroja is dealing with the microbiome characterization of Txakoli wine, a very dry white wine with high acidity and low alcohol content, produced in the Spanish provinces of the Basque Country.
Pablo Markaide
Pablo Markaide ‘s main research interests are gene expression, physiology of growth in bivalves, nutrition and metabolic pathways in animals, SNP and population genetics in sea fish species and bioinformaticsis.
June Gorrochategui
In her PhD June Gorrochategui is investigating the microbial taxonomic and functional diversity of the honeybee hive to identify profiles that harbour symbiotic properties beneficial for honeybee health.
Sofia Marcos
Sofia Marcos is doing her PhD within the European HOLOFOOD project aiming to develop and implement an holo-omic solution for a sustainable food production using chicken and salmon as study model when administerd pro and prebiotics.
Research assistants
Candela Baquero
Besides organizing diverse tasks within the laboratory Candela Baquero is involved in a project on the impact of Botrytis cinerea impact reduction in vines using metagenomics.
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 holds 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…
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) …
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…