Rafael Giraldo#
| Membership Number: | 2769 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafael_Giraldo http://www.cnb.csic.es/index.php/en/investigacion/departamentos-de-investigacion/biotecnologia-microbiana/amiloides-bacterianos-sinteticos |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Research Professor, Dept. of Microbial Biotechnology, CNB-CSIC, Cantoblanco (Madrid), Spain
- 2012 - 2018 Research Professor, Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Biology, CIB-CSIC
- 2010 - 2012 Research Professor, Dept. of Chemical & Physical Biology, CIB-CSIC
- 2000 - 2009 Tenure Staff Scientist, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology, CIB-CSIC
- 1995 - 1999 Tenure Track Scientist, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology, CIB-CSIC
- 1992 - 1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK)
- 1987 - 1991 PhD student, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid (Spain)
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbiology: Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Structural Biology and Biophysics
- Protein-DNA interactions
- Telomeres and DNA quadruplexes
- Bacterial plasmids
- DNA replication
- Protein amyloids and prions
- Synthetic Biology
- Optogenetics
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Member of the Spanish Biophysical Society
- Member of the Spanish Microbiological Society; Vice-President (2015-)
- Member of the American Society for Microbiology
- Member of the International Society for Plasmid Biology
- Member of the CSIC Research Ethics Committee; Vice-President (2018-2020)
