Women who changed the world 2020 - PCT Cartuja

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Irene García Seville, Spain (1969) She discovered new functions of cyanide in the development of roots and the immune response of plants.

She obtained her PhD from the University of Seville in 1997 with her work on genetic engineering in plants to obtain fungus-resistant crops. She participated in International Cooperation Programmes with laboratories in Havana (Cuba) and Santiago de Chile (Chile).

She continued her scientific training in Paris (France) until 2003, with periods at laboratories in Naples (Italy), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Córdoba (Argentina).

Since 2003 she has worked at the Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis (CSIC - Spanish National Research Council), where she heads research into the role of cyanide in plants.

Her work has shown that cyanide produced by plants naturally regulates root development, induces plant resistance to bacteria and viruses, and produces a new protein modification that regulates their function.

Sonia Jimeno Cartagena, Spain (1976) She studies mechanisms that are important for the maintenance of genetic stability in eukaryotes After gaining her PhD in Biology at the University of Seville in 2005, she continued her scientific training at Galway University, Ireland and since 2007 she has been at CABIMER (Andalusian Centre for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine), Seville.

In 2010 she began as a professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Seville, where she is currently a full professor. She is also the mother of three children.

She is currently engaged in the study of the role of important factors in maintaining genetic stability using human cell lines as a model. These factors may be key to the future development of new targeted therapies for the treatment of some types of tumours. She also studies the possible function they may have in repairing factors in DNA whose mutation causes a serious rare neuro-degenerative disease called “Aicardi-Goutières syndrome”, with the long-term aim of developing new therapies for these patients.

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Irene Fondón Cádiz, Spain (1978) Research on the use of virtual environments to generate feelings She is working as a Full Professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the University of Seville.

Since presenting her thesis in the field of image processing in 2010, she has spent research periods in Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, and has collaborated continuously with researchers from other universities, both domestic and international.

Her research, which is of a marked interdisciplinary character, focuses on the development of new algorithms with the intention of integrating them into computer-assisted diagnostic tools, especially applied to two subjects: Pigmented skin lesions (burns, melanoma, etc.) and ocular diseases (diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma).

She has recently started a new line of research related to virtual and mixed reality, 3D animation and visual effects.

Begoña Fernández Cádiz, Spain (1979) She obtained a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of Seville and a training internship at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) - CEA-Paris-Salay Since 2007 she has worked at the National Accelerators Centre in Seville and her work has always been linked to nuclear instrumentation and the basic nuclear physics line of the 3 MV tandem accelerator.

In recent years she has been active in HiSPANoS, the first and only source of accelerator-based neutrons in Spain. In 2020, she obtained a research project as an Emerging Investigator for the development and operation of the neutron time-of-flight at the CNA.

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