Sofía sudied the Biotechnology of the University of Salamanca. Then she pursued a PhD (2009-2014) at the laboratory of Yolanda Sánchez at the IBFG to study how Rho GTPase-mediated signalling pathways regulate polarized growth. 

For her postdoc (2015-2021) she joined Frank Uhlmann’s Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London to study how cohesin, a central regulator of many chromosomal activities is loaded onto chromosomes in the context of chromatin. 

After seven years at the Francis Crick Institute (December 2021), she came back to Salamanca to the laboratory of Avelino Bueno and María Sacristán at the Cancer Research Institute as a senior postdoc to study ubiquitylation-mediated processes in DNA damage tolerance. 

In June 2024 she joined the IBFG as group leader thanks to the Ramón y Cajal junior PI programme. She is focused in understanding the interplay between the local chromatin structure and cohesin function.

Curro studied Biology and a Master's degree in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology in the University of Murcia. 

He obtained a PhD Grant and conducted his research at the Yeast Physiology Group, led by José Cansado and Marisa Madrid, at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology in Murcia from 2018 to 2023. During this time, he investigated the role of RLC phosphorylation in Myosin II regulation under environmental stress and began his postdoc at the University of Murcia. 

Then, he undertook a short postdoctoral fellowship at the Miguel Vicente Manzanares Lab at the Cancer Research Center in Salamanca, where he gained expertise in performing myosin in vitro actin motility assays.

In January 2025, he joined the Chromosome Biology Lab as a Lab Manager. His research interests lie in studying whether the chromatin context for cohesin loading change upon different stress conditions.

Marisa studied Biotechnology at the University of Extremadura. 

At the moment, she is cursing the Master in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Salamanca. Since september 2024, she is doing her TFM at the Chromosome Biology Lab, studying the role of chromatin remodelers in cohesin loading.

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