Computational Biology

Laura Judith Marcos Zambrano

Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Laura Judith Marcos Zambrano is a bioanalyst specialized in clinical microbiology, bioinformatics, and metagenomics. She obtained her BSc in Bioanalysis at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). She has a master degree in Cellular Signaling, she received her Ph.D. at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2017, her doctoral investigations were carried out in Hospital Gregorio Marañon (FIB-HGM), and her work was focused on the characterization of yeasts causing fungemia: identification of species and antifungal susceptibility, molecular epidemiology, virulence factors, and molecular characterization of strains (genotyping). She has also worked in the invertebrate model of Galleria mellonella in a pre-doctoral stay at the Universitá degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy). She has been in an internship on the Bioinformatics Unit of the Hospital Ramón y Cajal (2019) and participated in the EMBO Practical Course of Microbial Metagenomics, held in the EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (2019). She joined the Computational Biology group at IMDEA Food in 2018 and currently has a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Research Grant. Her research is focused on leading the area of ​​microbiome modulation by bioactive compounds with 'in silico' developments for the prevention and treatment of complex diseases. She also participates in the COST Action CA18131 for the generation of 'Statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies' and takes part in the ESCMID Study Group for host and microbiota interaction (ESGHAMI). She is a member of "Initiative 11F", an organization that creates activities of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and participates in divulgatory events to translate research to the community.

Email: judith.marcos@imdea.org
Phone: +34 91 727 81 00

Teresa Laguna Lobo

Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Teresa Laguna obtained her BSc in Biochemistry in 2005 and her PhD in Immunology in 2013 at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2015 she finished a MSc in Omics Data Analysis at the University of Vic, when she carried out a project in finding relevant signatures in the different Neuroblastoma stages in the group of Dr. Manel Esteller at IDIBELL (Hospitalet de Llobregat). After finishing her MSc, she worked there in different projects in epigenomics analysis in cancer as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2016, she started as a postdoctoral bioinformatician at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz (Germany) where she participated in proteomics pipeline development and data analysis, and leaded the bioinformatic efforts in gene annotation improvement in vertebrate species by integration of proteomics and RNA-seq data. In 2019, she moved to IMDEA where she is focused in applying human epi-genome inter-variability for effective personalized nutrition strategies.

Email: teresa.laguna@imdea.org
Phone: +34 91 727 81 00

Marco Garranzo

Predoctoral researcher

“He obtained his bachelor‘s degree at the Complutense University of Madrid in Food Science and Technology in 2018. Afterwards he finished the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology master‘s degree in the Autonoma university of Madrid. Through his end of year project of finding metabolic interactions between drugs and foods/bioactives he was incorporated at IMDEA Food Institute in June 2020 where he is currently working as a predoctoral bioinformatics researcher focusing on finding food-drug interactions through transcriptomic and text mining approaches”.

Email: marco.garranzo@imdea.org
Phone: +34 645 24 20 64

Sheyla Karina Ordóñez Cabascango

  Technical Support
”Sheyla Ordóñez was graduated in Food Science and technology in 2017 at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid-Spain. In 2018, she graduated from a certificate of professionalism in Enology at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, which allowed her to work as a Laboratory Assistant. Recently she got a certificate in Microbiological and Biotechnological Analysis and joined the Computational Biology Group at IMDEA Food Institute in April 2021 where she is working as a Technical Support Assistant for “Picture your microbes” project.”

Email: sheyla.ordonez@imdea.org 

Silvia García Caballero

Technical Support

“He obtained his bachelor‘s degree at the Complutense University of Madrid in Food Science and : “She was graduated in Human Nutrition and Dietetics in 2017 at Complutense University of Madrid with a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition in 2018 at Catholic University of Murcia, incorporation at IMDEA Food Institute in June 2020 where she is working as a Technical support”..

Email: silvia.garcia@imdea.org

Silvia Cruz Gil

Lab Technician

Silvia Cruz Gil obtained her Biochemistry Degree at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2013. During the last two years of her degree she collaborated with the Biochemistry II Department at Pharmacy School in Universidad Complutense de Madrid studying the molecular biology of hepatocellular carcinoma. Later, she continued her training by obtaining a Master in Molecular Biosciences at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2014. Meanwhile, Silvia joined ALGENEX (Alternative Gene Expression S.L.) in association with I.N.I.A. (National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology) for an internship. During this period she worked in the development of vectored vaccines. In October 2014, she started studies conductive to her PhD Degree at IMDEA Food Institute in the Molecular Oncology Group. Her research primarily focuses on the role of the lipid metabolism in tumor progression. In April 2016 she obtained a Boehringer Ingelheim Travel Grant to perform a short research stage in the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus(Dresden, Germany) to learn organoids technique under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Stange. Her thesis oral defense will be held at the beginning of 2019 titled “Lipid metabolism alterations in colorectal cancer: potential clinical relevance in the prognosis of the disease”.

Email: silvia.cruz@imdea.org
Phone: +34 91 727 81 00