As we already briefly mentioned in the last post, the lab is extremely happy to welcome our first graduate students, Patricia (Pati) Prada and Pablo Machuca. Pati graduated in 2014 (Genetics) from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) and obtained a joint Masters in Biological Antropology from the Universitat de Barcelona – UAB (our alma mater, by the way) […]
It’s been a while since the last post, and for a good reason! It has been a really hectic couple of months… But first things first… During these months the lab space has taken shape, there is still some construction going on, but the main lab space is done. You can take a look at […]
This past Thursday the Quintana lab was honored to share a wonderful night at the Círculo Ecuestre of Barcelona to raise awareness for mitochondrial disease research. The event was organized by Isabel Lavín (and her husband Valero), the parents of Mencía, a really wonderful 7 year-old girl, and gathered a large audience of friends, mito families […]
It has been an eventful couple of months for the Quintana lab. It all started when we received a great offer to locate the lab at the Institute of Neurosciences at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, in the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain and have our research funded by one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants (NEUROMITO: […]
We are really excited that our latest paper, in collaboration with the Bellen lab at Baylor, has been published in the prestigious journal Cell. Our work, titled: Glial lipid droplets and ROS induced by mitochondrial defects promote neurodegeneration, has identified a conserved mechanism that leads to neuronal death after mitochondrial defects. In this study, the Bellen […]
This past Saturday we had the opportunity to share our research with a select group of members and friends of the NW Mitochondrial Research Guild. The event, aptly named Mito Science Night, included a tour around the different labs in the Mitochondrial Program: the Morgan/Sedensky lab, the Hahn lab and the Quintana lab. Guests were […]
Step by step… oh baby… That was the first line of a 1990 cheesy song… but step by step is the way the Quintana lab is growing. We are really really excited to announce the new additions to the lab: Dr. Irene Bolea is joining the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. She will be the force behind our experiments […]
Recently I had the opportunity to collaborate with KOMO TV and Seattle Children’s Hospital to help explain what we do and what are our goals in the Quintana lab. We like to do our best to raise awareness of mitochondrial disease! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x77EMtGYI4w&feature=youtu.be
Early last month we attended the 2014 UMDF Symposium , held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The UMDF does a great job in providing quite a unique opportunity to promote the interaction between mitochondrial disease researchers and clinicians with families and patients. This year was not an exception and we really enjoyed the 4-day meeting under a […]
A few months ago, the Quintana lab participated in the 2014 edition of the Neuroscience’s Frontiers Webinars, organized by both CERFA and SRUK, the associaciations of Spanish Scientists in Germany and the UK, respectively. It was a really interesting webinar, with speakers from all over the world, and it was a great opportunity for the […]