Nadia Mercader Huber
Investigator
Development of epicardium and its role during regeneration
National Cardiovascular Research Center Carlos
Spain
Biography
Nadia Mercader received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich) in 1998, and was awarded her PhD in Molecular Biology by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2003. The subject of her doctoral studies, carried out in Miguel Torres’s laboratory (CNB-CSIC), was the role of Meis genes during proximodistal vertebrate limb development. After her PhD, Nadia continued her study of the function of Meis genes during limb regeneration in urodeles. These studies were performed in Miguel Torres’s laboratory (CNB-CSIC) and in Elly Tanaka’s laboratory (Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany). During her postdoc with Carl Neumann at the EMBL (Heidelberg, Germany), Nadia studied early events in limb induction using zebrafish as a model organism. Nadia joined the CNIC in March 2007. Nadia Mercader received an ERC Starting Grant in 2004. Since August 2015 Nadia Mercader is Professor at University of Bern (Switzerland) and Visiting Professor at CNIC.
Research Interest
Cardiology
Publications
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Hermann M, Stillhard P, Wildner H, Seruggia D, Kapp V, Sánchez-Iranzo H, Mercader N, Montoliu L, Zeilhofer HU, Pelczar P. Binary recombinase systems for high-resolution conditional mutagenesis. Nucleic acids research. 2014 Jan 9;42(6):3894-907.
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Bednarek D, González-Rosa JM, Guzmán-MartÃnez G, Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez Ó, Aguado T, Sánchez-Ferrer C, Marques IJ, Galardi-Castilla M, de Diego I, Gómez MJ, Cortés A. Telomerase is essential for zebrafish heart regeneration. Cell reports. 2015 Sep 8;12(10):1691-703.
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Cogliati S, Calvo E, Loureiro M, Guaras AM, Nieto-Arellano R, Garcia-Poyatos C, Ezkurdia I, Mercader N, Vázquez J, Enriquez JA. Mechanism of super-assembly of respiratory complexes III and IV. Nature. 2016 Nov 24;539(7630):579-82.
