Department: Genética, Antropología Física y Fisiología Animal

Centre: Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología

Campus: Bizkaia

Field of knowledge: Ciencias

Area: Genetics

Research group: Bases moleculares de patologías humanas de alta prevalencia: cáncer e infertilidad. Avanzando (en medicina de precisión) hacia un manejo personalizado del paciente - GIC 21/046

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Email: jone.michelena@ehu.eus

Doctor by the Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea with the thesis Transcriptional mechanisms regulating cell cycle progression and dna damage response by e2f7 transcription factor 2014. Supervised by Dr. Ana María Zubiaga Elordieta.

I performed my PhD at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in the field of the molecular mechanisms involved in the control of cell proliferation and maintenance of genome integrity (2014). I developed my postdoctoral research in the University of Zurich (Switzerland), where I specialized in DNA damage repair mechanisms (2016-2019). In 2020, Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science supported my return to the UPV/EHU, where I am focused in the investigation of the transcriptional networks involved in the maintenance of genomic integrity, cell homeostasis and their involvement in tumor progression. I have been awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award (2022), and a UPV/EHU project for junior researchers (2023). I have supervised a PhD Thesis defended in 2022, and I am currently supervising two PhD Theses. I teach in the Master's Degree in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine of the UPV/EHU. In addition, I participate in the supervision of Final Degree Projects of students of the Degrees of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology, as well as Master's Degree Projects of students of the Master in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine.