Itsaso Garcia-Arcos, PhD
Personal and scientific path to today.
My scientific journey started by obtaining a Degree in Biochemistry at the University of the Basque country (Spain). At the time, this involved three full years of General Biology and Molecular Biology, followed by two years of Biochemistry and a research project. Like many other students, in the last 2.5 years I volunteered my time (~20h/week) in a research lab. I run small tests and experiments helping very patient and dedicated graduate students who generously shared their knowledge with me until I was ready to run my own small graduation project.
It was clear to me that I enjoyed my time in the lab and I wanted to pursue a PhD. The expertise of the lab, hepatic lipid metabolism, was very appealing to me. I secured a grant to fund my doctoral project, studying the lipid composition of the lipid droplets that form during the transient steatosis associated with liver regeneration, and the specific targeting of the protein SND1 to the lipid droplets. During this time, I also enjoyed time as a visiting scientist to study peroxisomal proteomics of aging at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), and intracellular protein interactions in pancreatic cells at the University of Bordeaux (France).
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