Meritxell Rovira
Developmental Biology
Centro de Medicina Regenerativa de Barcelona
Spain
Biography
Meritxell Rovira holds a Bachelor in Biology (2001) from University of Barcelona and a PhD in Health and Life Science (2007) from University Pompeu Fabra. During her PhD she worked in the differentiation of mESC into pancreatic acinar cells under the supervision of Anouchka Skoudy and F.X. Real. After her PhD she moved to USA in 2008 for her postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins/School of Medicine to work in Steve D Leach and Mike Parsons laboratories, where she acquired expertise in adult pancreatic progenitors in mouse and zebrafish models. She came back to Barcelona in 2011 as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Jorge Ferrer laboratory (IDIBAPS) where she gained expertise in the field of epigenetics. After her postdoctoral training, she joined Núria López-Bigas laboratory at IRB as a research associate to stablish and supervise the experimental part of Núria’s lab. She joined the CMR[B] in 2017 after being awarded with a Jovenes Investigadores fellowship from the Spanish Ministry. The project she will develop at CMR[B] will investigate the transcriptional and epigenetic changes that occur between embryonic ductal progenitors and adult ducts, to identify the molecular mechanisms that restrict the lineage potential of ductal cells.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology, Biology, Methods, Signaling Pathways, Epigenetics, Stem Cells, and Stem Cell Culture
Publications
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Delaspre F*, Beer RL*, Rovira M, Huang W, Wang G, Gee S, Vitery Mdel C, Wheelan SJ, Parsons MJ. (2015) Centroacinar cells are progenitors that contribute to endocrine pancreas regeneration. Diabetes 64(10):3499-509. *authors contributed equally to this work.
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Afelik S, Rovira M. (2016) Pancreatic β-cell regeneration: Facultative or dedicated progenitors? Mol Cell Endocrinol S0303-7207(16)30467-1.
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Afelik S, Rovira M. (2017) Erratum to: Pancreatic β-cell regeneration: advances in understanding the genes and signaling pathways involved. . Genome Med. 9(1):52.
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Afelik S, Rovira M. (2017) Pancreatic β-cell regeneration: advances in understanding the genes and signaling pathways involved. . Genome Med. 9(1):42. Epub 2017, May 16.
