Quintanalab-Calçotada 2019

The Quintanalab-Calçotada 2019 took place on a super sunny April day in El Priorat de Banyeres, a tiny village near Vilafranca. Thanks, Andrea, for offering the house! It is already a tradition that the whole group gathers together one day to eat calçots with salsa romesco and have fun. (Please, note Albert’s Salt Bae position…) […]

Pati and Pablo join the Quintana lab

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) […]

A busy couple of months!

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 […]

The Quintana lab goes across the pond…

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: […]

THE LAB GETS BIGGER!

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 […]