Andres Lopez Aguilera PhD

Andrés Aguilera is Professor of Genetics of the University of Seville, Director of the Andalusian Centre of Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER). He obtained his PhD in Seville in 1983 working on yeast genetics of ethanol tolerance. After two postdoctoral stays in Darmstadt Technical University with Fritz Zimmermann working on Molecular Genetics of Yeast Glycolysis and New York University Medical Center with Hannah Klein working on Genetic Recombination, he started his own lab dedicated to Genome Instability in 1991.

His main research interests are the mechanisms by which replication stress, transcription and RNA processing and export cause genome instability, in particular that mediated by R loops, using yeast and human cells. He is member of EMBO, of a number of International Scientific Advisory Boards for different Research Centres and of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals.