Dr Cristina Risco
"Metallothioneins for CLEM"
Biography:
Dr Cristina Risco is a staff scientist of the National Research Council of Spain and group leader at the National Centre for Biotechnology, where she has been working since 1994. Dr. Risco graduated in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1986, and obtained her PhD in 1990 at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I of the Faculties of Biology and Chemistry of the same university.
Her background in structural biology and virology was acquired during her training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, NCI-FCRDC, Maryland, USA (1990-1994), and during short stays in prestigious European laboratories such as the Université P. et M. Curie (Paris, France 1999-2000) and the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (Martinsried, Germany, 2002). In year 2007 Dr. Risco founded the Cell Structure Lab at the CNB where together with her team she studies virus-host interactions with the help of new imaging technologies.
She has been invited to give lectures and organize sessions at international meetings such as the FASEB Virus Structure and Assembly Meeting (2008), the 4 th European Congress of Virology (2009), the Gordon Research Conference “Viruses & Cells” (2009, 2011 and 2013), the Ninth International Symposium on Positive-Strand RNA Viruses (2010), the European Microscopy Congress (2012) and the International Virology Congress (2014). Dr. Risco has been a reviewer for funding agencies of France (2008), Israel (2009), United Kingdom (2009, 2011), Germany (2010), the Netherlands (2010, 2011), Portugal (2012, 2013), Spain (2008-2012) and the European Research Council (ERC) (2013). She has been PI or co-PI of 10 projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science (5), the government of Madrid (3), the National Research Council of Spain (1) and the NIH-USA (1). She is also involved in teaching activities of Master degrees at the major universities of Madrid.