Belen Ramos Jose Maria

Biography

Graduate in Veterinary Medicine, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and PhD in Physiology. Basic researcher at Parc Sanitari-Fundacion San Juan de Dios for Teaching and Research since 2007. I started my research training in 1994 in the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Extremadura where I realized the Degree Thesis supervised by Prof. Francisco Centeno in the study of the folding of proteins presented after I graduated in 1998. Subsequently, my research training and my scientific trajectory have been framed in the neuroscience area fundamentally. Perform the doctorate in the Department of Physiology of the University of Extremadura supervised by Prof. Enrique Claro and Prof. Ginés Salido. During my doctoral thesis I worked on the study of early events that occur in programmed cell death in primary neurons and cell lines. At this stage, make stays in the laboratory of Dr. Suzanne Jackowski in Sant Jude Childrens Hospital (Memphis, USA) and as well as in the Institute of Neurosciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona with Prof. Enrique Claro for two years. In 2003, I began my postdoctoral phase in the laboratory of Dr. Grace Gill of the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). At this stage I focus on the study of transcriptional programs that control normal neuronal development. On my return to Spain in 2007 I focused on Molecular Psychiatry at the San Juan de Dios Foundation within the research group of Dr. Josep Maria Haro. My scientific interest has focused on understanding the development and functioning of the nervous system through the study of mechanisms involved in the initiation of apoptosis in neuronal systems, later through the study of transcriptional programs of the central nervous system of mammals that control dendritic development and in this latter stage in altering transcriptional programs in severe psychiatric disorders in the brain and in peripheral lymphocytes. I am currently investigating altered molecular mechanisms in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, or short evolution psychoses that may lead to alterations in neuronal development and synaptic activity, or structural changes in the brain among others and therefore,

Research Interest

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology