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🇬🇧 C1 (CAE) | 🇫🇷 B2 (DELF) | 🇪🇸 Native
(Oct 2024 - Currently) Postdoctoral Researcher Marc Güell lab, Dept. of Medicine & Life Sciences University Pompeu Fabra — Barcelona, Spain
(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
(2020-2024) PhD in Biomedicine Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Barcelona, Spain Supervisor: Marc Güell
(2019) MSc in Interdisciplinary Resarch 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
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-GarcĂa, M., CampamĂ -Sanz, N., Paetzold, B., Lood, R., & GĂĽell, 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
(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.
(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
(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.
(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 FundaciĂł 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.
& Courses
(December 2023) 6th International Conference on Microbiome Engineering (ICME) organized by the American Chemical Society (AiChe) at the University of Berkeley in San Francisco, USA. Poster presentation: “Evaluation of enhanced skin probiotics in organotypic skin models”
(September - November 2023) London School of Economics (LSE) Negotiation programme — Santander Scholarships
(July 2023) Barcelona Debates on The Microbiome. Poster Presentation: “Genetic domestication of Cutibacterium acnes for enhanced skin probiotics”
(October 2022) Microbiome Meeting in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York, USA. Poster presentation: “Genetic domestication of Cutibacterium acnes for monitoring skin inflammatory diseases”
(October 2022) Barcelona Collaboratorium Symposium. Poster presentation: “Genetic Domestication of Cutibacterium acnes for next generation skin probiotics”
(August 2022) Communications Biology Editorial Course for a cohort of 5 selected students for full hands-on training on reviewing and handling manuscripts and front-half content.
(April 2021) From Science to Society (FS2S) Workshop for technology transfer and science policy in Cambridge, UK. Co-organized by FundaciĂłn Rafael del Pino and the University of Cambridge.
(February 2020) EMBO India Symposium “Engineering Meets Evolution” in Chennai, India. Travel Support Award.
(August 2019) Systems Biology Summer School at the Center for Systems Biology (CSB) in Dresden, Germany. Stochastic Modelling of gene expression in yeast.
(August 2018) V Summer School in Synthetic Biology at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) in Santander, Spain.