• Sigmar Stricker , Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics . Berlin

• James Sharpe , Centro de Regulación Genómica . Barcelona.

• Juan Jose Sanz-Ezquerro
• Junior researcher
• Ext.3105

Juan José Sanz graduated in Biology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1991 and obtained his PhD from the same university in 1996. During this period he studied the molecular mechanisms of influenza virus replication at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC). For his postdoctoral period he moved into developmental biology and joined professor Cheryll Tickle’s laboratory in the UK, first at University College London as an EMBO fellow and then at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre in Dundee. His main research topic was cell signaling, apoptosis and pattern formation during organogenesis, using limb development in chicken embryos as a model system. In 2002 he returned to the CNB as a Ramón y Cajal fellow, starting his own research group focused on digit morphogenesis during embryogenesis and its relationship with regeneration. Juan José joined the CNIC in 2007, where his group focuses on understanding the role of new genes during cardiovascular development.