Meet the Team
Cristina Viéitez
Group Leader - Ramón y Cajal
cristina.vieitez@usal.es
Cris started her own lab at the Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics in April 2023.
She studied Biology at the University of León, did a PhD in Chromatin Biology at UPF Barcelona (Posas & de Nadal groups) and then moved to Germany for a postdoc in Systems Biology at EMBL-EBI (Beltrao group) and EMBL Heidelberg (Typas group). After one year as a senior scientist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, she came back to Spain with the Ramon y Cajal talent attraction programme to start her group at IBFG (CSIC).
Outside the lab, you can find her well entertained with her two small kids.
Elvira Portales
Lab Technician
viri@usal.es
Elvira studied Pharmacy at the University of Salamanca. She holds a permanent position at IBFG and has more than 20 years of experience working with yeast mutant libraries in a genetics lab and supporting core facilities. In July 2023 she joined our lab!
In her free time she enjoys travelling and gardening.
Marina Z. Aeberhard
PhD Student
marzamaeb@usal.es
Marina studied Biology at the University of Navarra in Spain and during this time she interned at University of California San Diego in USA (UCSD, Hemal PatelGroup). In 2022 she completed her Master’s Degree in Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of Seville (Spain).
She holds a Predoc contrat associated to the FuncHis project - Funded by Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University & AEI.
In her downtime she enjoys studying Korean and listening to music.
Mario Sánchez Alonso
Master Student
marioalmada@usal.es
Mario studied Biology at the University of Salamanca and is currently enrolled in the Cellular and Molecular Biology Masters degree and doing her Master thesis in our lab at IBFG.
In his free time he enjoys spending time with friends and playing videogames.
Helena García Carrasco
Undergrad Student /ERASMUS+University of Sköve, Sweden
helenag.carrasco@gmail.com
Helena studied Bioscience – Molecular Biodesign at the University of Skövde, in Sweden.
During her studies, she did a summer research internship at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain (María Blasco’s group). Currently she is doing her Bachelor thesis in our group within the ERASMUS student mobility programme.
Outside the lab, she enjoys doing taekwondo, playing classical guitar and reading novels, plus she is always ready for new adventures.