Guillermo Nevot Sánchez

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7015-0942

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🇬🇧 C1 (CAE) | 🇫🇷 B2 (DELF) | 🇪🇸 Native

Experience

(Oct 2024 - Currently) Postdoctoral Researcher Marc Güell lab, Dept. of Medicine & Life Sciences University Pompeu Fabra — Barcelona, Spain

(Feb 2026) Visiting Researcher Harris Wang’s Lab, Dept. of Systems Biology Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) — New York, United States

(Aug 2025) Visiting Researcher Tami Lieberman’s Lab, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — Cambridge, United States

(Feb 2023 - Apr 2023) Visiting Researcher Ellen Bogaard’s ****lab, Dept. of Dermatology Radboud University Medical Centre (RUMC) — Nijmegen, Netherlands

(Oct 2019 - Oct 2024) PhD candidate, FI fellow Marc Güell lab, Dept. of Medicine & Life Sciences University Pompeu Fabra — Barcelona, Spain

(Apr 2019 - July 2019) Research Intern David Bikard lab, Dept. of Microbiology ****Institute Pasteur — Paris, France

(Jan 2019 - Apr 2019) Research Intern Pascal Hersen lab, Dept. of Physics ****Université de Paris — Paris, France

(Sep 2018 - Dec 2018) Research Intern Ariel Lindner lab, Unit U1284 ****Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) — Paris, France

(Jun 2017 - Sep 2017) Research Intern John McCarthy lab, School of Life Sciences University of Warwick — Warwick, UK

Education

(2020-2024) PhD in Biomedicine Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Barcelona, Spain Supervisor: Marc Güell

(2019) MSc in Interdisciplinary Research in Life Sciences Université de Paris - Learning Planet Institute (former CRI) — Paris, France

(2014-2018) BSc in Biotechnology Universidad de Zaragoza — Zaragoza, Spain Erasmus exchange: University of Warwick — Warwick, UK

Publications

van Hout, N.E., Nevot, G., Jansen, P.A.M., Mannan, A.A., Zeeuwen, P.L.J.M., Hijnen, D.J., Tanaka, R.J., Güell, M., and van den Bogaard, E.H. (2026) ‘From Prebiotics to Engineered Microbes: Microbe-Inspired Treatments for Atopic Dermatitis’. British Journal of Dermatology, 194(3), 420. DOI: 10.1093/bjd/ljaf451.

Nevot, G., Santos-Moreno, J., Campamà-Sanz, N., Toloza, L., Parra-Cid, C., A.M. Jansen, P., Barbier, I., Ledesma-Amaro, R., van den Bogaard, E., and Güell, M. (2025) ‘Synthetically Programmed Antioxidant Delivery by a Domesticated Skin Commensal’. Cell Systems. DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2025.101169.

Nevot, G. Talking to intractable microbes. Commun Biol 5, 1067 (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04037-w

Knödlseder, N., Nevot, G., Fábrega, M.-J., Mir-Pedrol, J., Sanvicente-García, M., Campamà-Sanz, N., Paetzold, B., Lood, R., & Güell, M. (2022). Engineering selectivity of cutibacterium acnes phages by epigenetic imprinting. PLOS Pathogens, 18(3). DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010420

Fábrega MJ, Knodlseder N, Nevot G, Sanvicente M, Toloza L, Santos-Moreno J, Güell M. (2021) Establishing a Cell-Free Transcription–Translation Platform for Cutibacterium acnes to Prototype Engineered Metabolic and Synthetic Biology. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00894

Funding

(2025) MIT Seed Global Fund from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

(2023) PlaCLIK grant for innovation in Education from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(2023) EMBO Scientific Exchange grant for international PhD research exchange.

(2020-2023) FI AGAUR PhD support grant from the Government of Catalonia.

(2018-2019) “Beca de Colaboración” for undergraduate research support from the Spanish Ministry of Education.

(2017) Erasmus + Internship for research abroad.

Awards

(2025) Future Leaders in Dermatology — European Society of Dermatological Research (ESDR)

(2024) Best oral presentation award in the 1st SynBYSS International Conference. Sponsored by ACS Synthetic Biology.

(2024) EUTalenton Grand Prize - European Commission

(2023) Best flash talk at the UPF Biomedical Research Symposium 2023

(2021) Celera — People incubator for Spanish Talent selecting 10 top individuals each year. Link

(2021) Finalist in the I Prize for Medicine and Health writing — “Sobre Borges y la Leche Fermentada” Link

(2020) Finalist in the Jot Down Ciencia Prize for Science writing — “La naturaleza del reflejo” Link

(2020) Best talk in the Systems Bioengineering Seminars from the MELIS UPF department.

(2019) Best Bachelor Student Prize for outstanding values and academic performance from the University of Zaragoza

(2015) Ruta BBVA Quetzal — UNESCO program for the cultural exchange between Spain and Latin America. Link

Outreach

(2024) European Researcher Night at Cosmo Caixa in Speed Dating with scientist activity

(2023) European Researcher Night at Cosmo Caixa and Biblioteca Gabriel Garcia Marquez — Talk “You cannot scape from bacteria (and why you should be happy about it)”

(2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 Editions) Open PRBB — Volunteer for science outreach activities and workshops organizer. Presented the talk “A certain idea of beauty (and science)”

(2022) European Researcher Night at Cosmo Caixa — Workshop “Let me modify your skin bacteria”.

(2022) BCN Ciencia — Workshop “Let me modify your skin bacteria”

(2022) Organizer of the Young Outreach Prize (”Premio Jóvenes Divulgadores”) for promoting science communication among youngsters. Link

(2017, 2018 editions) Biotechnofarm — Science workshops for Highschools organized by FEBiotec.

Teaching

(2020-2023) Teaching assistant in Advanced Synthetic Biology — Biomedical Engineering Degree at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(2020-2023) Teaching assistant in Tissue and cell engineering — Biomedical Engineering Degree at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(2022) Instructor of the Barcelona International Science Young Challenge (BIYSC) organized by Fundació La Pedrera Link

(2021) iGEM instructor of the Universidad of Zaragoza Team Reconby 2021 Link

(2020-2021) iGEM Instructor of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Team Hormonic 2020, Team ARIA 2021 and Team Skinbait 2024.

Conferences

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