Researcher: García Saez, Alberto

 

I am an evolutionary and molecular biologist interested in both areas of knowledge and especially in their common ground (evolutionary genetics). My research experience started at the Autonomous University of Madrid (PhD, 1995), continued over 15 years of postdoctoral and independent work at various European and American research institutions and with three more years of teaching responsibilities in two universities in Madrid and at the Univ. of Zurich. Currently, I am a tenured professor at Complutense University of Madrid (Genetics dept.), where I work with two animal models, Artemia and Caenorhabditis elegans.

 

Research

We are interested in how molecular biology can inform us about evolution. We use two organisms: Artemia, a crustacean that lives in hyperosmotic aquatic environments, and Caenorhabditis elegans, which of course is the famous nematode model in biological research. With the former we are interested in addressing the problem of the molecular basis of adaptation to hypersalinity, whereas with the latter we study developmental aspects related to TGF-beta and microRNAs. Soon we will start exploring Caenorhabditis as a model system in experimental evolution.

 

Resources

We keep frozen samples of many of the organisms that we have used so far, including not only Artemia and C. elegans, but also several Drosophila lines and many species of coccolithophorids (unicellular algae).

 

Links

https://wormbase.org/

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/gsl/artemia

http://tinyurl.com/agsaez-gs

 

Contact

Alberto García Sáez

Unidad docente de Genética, Dpto. de Genética, Fisiología y Microbiología

Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Complutense University of Madrid

c/ José Antonio Novais, 12. Edif. anexo 1ª plta., dpcho. 45. 28040 Madrid.

 

Tel.: (+34) 91394 5132.

Best option to get in touch: agsaez@ucm.es

 

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