====== Biography ======
Marisa Madrid was born in Torre-Pacheco on April 29, 1978. Her undergraduate studies were done in Biology, and she got her degree from the University of Murcia in 2001. She obtained a European PhD degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology by the University of Murcia in 2007, which was possible thanks to a FPU Fellowship from the Spanish Government.

From 2008 to 2011, she served as postdoc in [[http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/Research/groups.aspx?id=5 |Iain Hagan's lab at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester (UK)]] with the support of an EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship.

She joined the [[http://www.um.es/gr-fisiologia/en/| Yeast Physiology group at the University of Murcia ]]in 2011 as recipient of a Juan de la Cierva fellowship.

====== Research summary ======