Laia Bosch-Presegué
Coordinator of the Epigenetics and tissue transformation research line in the TR2Lab
Email: laia.bosch@uvic.cat
ORCID: 0000-0001-8025-2416
Scientific Profile: URECERCA
Professor of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Welfare at the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia.
She did his Ph.D. in the Professor Pere Garriga laboratory at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. During her PhD studies, she focused on the structure-function relationships of the prototype of G-protein-coupled receptors Rhodopsin and in the molecular basis of disease associated with mutations in this important receptor causing retinal degenerations, like retinitis pigmentosa.
From 2008 to 2018, she joined as a researcher in the Chromatin Biology group led by Ph.D. Alex Vaquero, in the Department of Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at IDIBELL. Her primary research interest was to understand the mechanisms that rule Chromatin dynamics and in particular, how the post-translational modifications of the N-terminal tails of histones are important for ensuring a proper control of chromatin functions interplay with the rest of chromatin machinery to keep a healthy and efficient Chromatin organization.
After her incorporation as a Professor at the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia, Ph.D. Laia Bosch-Presegué has joined the Research Line of Epigenetics and tissue transformation in TR2Lab. Currently, her research is focused on studying epigenetic events in different pathologies and how different interventions can prevent their appearance, improve symptoms or contribute to their healing.
My last happenings:
Biomedicine Workshops: more than 1000 High School Students and participation from all Secondary Schools in Vic
The biomedicine workshops for high school students organized by the Tissue Repair and Regeneration Research Group (TR2lab) within the Educational Biomedicine Program of TR2lab and UDivulga program of UVic-UCC are a consolidated activity aimed at establishing a link between high school scientific education and university degrees. Additionally, the workshops serve as a very useful platform for disseminating biomedical science and fostering scientific vocations, conveying the curiosity and research initiatives of high school students. In this edition, more than 250 students from Osona and Vallès Occidental have participated in the workshops, and over 1000 high school students have enjoyed this [...]
Up to 190 high school students from Osona and Vallès Occidental have attended the Biomedicine Workshops offered by TR2Lab within the UVIC-UCC
One more time the research group in Tissue Repair and Regeneration (TR2Lab) of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences of Central Catalonia (IRIS-CC) since last July, has successfully organized the Biomedicine Workshops for high school students in the Biosciences laboratories of the Faculty of Science, Technology, and Engineering. This year's workshops were: "Experimental analysis of human serum proteins by electrophoresis" and "Experimental analysis of human DNA by PCR".TR2Lab has been offering Biomedicine Workshops for high schools since the 2015/2016 academic year and, since then, more than 800 high school students have attended them. Once again, the [...]
Stay in the Research Institute Versus the Leukemia Josep Carreras.
Principal Investigador: Laia Bosch-Presegué. Collaborator: Alejandro Vaquero (Principal investigator of the Chromatin Biology Laboratory). Where: Research Institute Versus the Leukemia Josep Carreras (Barcelona) Period: April 2022. She will be studying the functional relation between the HP1 isoforms and the histone H2AZ variant in the regulation of the Heterochromatin and the stability of the genome under stress conditions.
