2025
September: We are back to business. We started the academic course with the SEBBM meeting. The PI, Pablo Ranea Robles, presented in the Metabolism Regulation and Nutrition group his research as a postdoc at the CBMR in Copenhagen.
July: Kimberly Gallegos defended her master thesis with honors! Congratulations Kimberly and all the best for your next step in your career.
July: Social activity! The peroxisome lab gathered together for a fun hike near Granada. We hiked "Ruta de los Bolos". Thanks to the melting snow in Sierra Nevada, it was full of water, cooling the sweltering heat of Granada. We said goodbye to this academic course with a lunch after the hike :). A toast for a new and exciting year starting in September.
June: Fellowship announcement!. Julia Aguirre Azorín will be the first PhD Student of the lab, thanks to an FPU fellowship, awarded by the Ministry of Education. With a strong background in nutrition and metabolism, Julia will lead the studies using the Abcd3 KO mouse model investigating peroxisomal metabolism. Welcome Julia!
March: The first hire of the lab started working here! Yolanda Ramírez Casas studied Biology in Granada (Universidad de Granada) and is now about to defend her PhD in Biomedicine. With her ample experience with in vivo work, working with different mouse models, she will work now as staff scientist in the lab. Welcome Yolanda!
Big news! We have launched an exciting initiative here in Granada. It's a research network on translational metabolism. We have named it GRANAMET. and our first meeting took place on March 21st in a historical place in Granada, Corrala Santiago.
More info in our website: https://www.granamet.es/
January: The first master student of the lab has started! Kimberly Gallegos Lazo studied Biology in Peru (Universidad Nacional de San Agustín) and a Master Degree in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia). She is now enrolled in "Máster Universitario en Condicionantes Genéticos Nutricionales y Ambientales del Crecimiento y Desarrollo" at the University of Granada. For her master thesis, she will study the effect of dicarboxylic acids on the mitochondria of liver cells. Welcome Kimberly!
2024
October 2024
Dr. Ranea-Robles presented the research lines of the lab the OEPM (Open European Peroxisome Meeting) in Sant Feliu de Guixols, at Costa Brava in Catalunya.
Together with a newly established PI at CIBM (Dr. Carmen Venegas) we organized the CIBM New Researchers Symposium. 8 new PIs recently established in Granada presented their research. The simposum was well received by the research community in Granada, and hopefully will contribute to the exciting research environment Granada has in the field of Biomedicine
Dr. Ranea-Robles presented the research lines of the lab at the neighbour research institute CSIC-IPBLN
September 2024: We begin this exciting adventure in the beautiful city of Granada, at the Center for Biomedical Research (CIBM in Spanish). And we did it with great news, the lab has been funded with a national grant from the Spanish Research Agency (AEI), the most important public funder in Spain. With that support we can delve into the secrets of peroxisomes and metabolism. Stay tuned for more exciting news