My eagerness to explore the mechanisms of nature led me to graduate in Environmental Sciences at the University of Barcelona (2010) and my passion for the sea led me to do my PhD in Marine Sciences at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2016). Once I finished my doctoral thesis, focused on the ecology of salps (Tunicates), my mind was full of new questions that involved talking about genes. This led me to Asturias to do my postdoc in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo, where I learned from scratch about genomics, transcriptomics, and other disciplines. My research in the laboratory of Professor Carlos López Otín aims to find the keys to ageing in different groups of marine organisms. Through this journey we have published the recent paper “Comparative genomics of mortal and immortal cnidarians unveils novel keys behind rejuvenation” in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Here we present the genome of the immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, and use comparative genomics to identify genes amplified or with differential variants characteristic of this jellyfish. Apart from natural sciences, I am passionate about investigating the human psyche, so I am now combining research with a degree in Psychology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
