My academic formation is biochemistry. I did my thesis under Prof. Manuel Pérez Alonso's guidance, which led to the identification of the Drosophila gene muscleblind, the founder member of the Muscleblind-like (MBNL) family of alternative splicing regulators with critical roles in human genetic diseases such as myotonic dystrophy. After 6 years of postdoctoral training in Mary Baylies' laboratory at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, in 2001 I returned to Spain with a Ramón y Cajal research contract and started my independent research career at the University of Valencia where my overarching goal is to understand the mechanisms of pathogenesis and to discover therapeutic targets and innovative treatments of human genetic diseases, with a particular focus in myotonic dystrophy. To this end, we use human samples and animal and cell models to understand the molecular basis of disease, perform drug repurposing screenings, and evaluate the activity of oligonucleotide-based drugs. We actively seek a close relationship with clinical researchers and biotech companies.

Lorena Cano-Orón is Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia. She is a PhD in Communication and Interculturality with an International Mention (2019) from the University of Valencia. In 2013 she graduated in Audiovisual Communication (UV), obtaining the Extraordinary Grade Award. She has completed the Master's Degree in Research in Communication and Journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2014) and the Master's Degree in Interculturality, Communication and European Studies at the University of Valencia (2015). Her lines of research are oriented towards the study of content flows in social networks -in the field of health and political communication-, as well as the study of privacy and the effects of new technologies from a technopolitical perspective. She is a member of two stable research teams (Mediaflows and ScienceFlows) and the editor of the academic journal Dígitos. Revista de Comunicación Digital.

Papers

• Cano-Orón, L., Capelli, C., & Lalli, P. (2023). How Fact-Checkers Define and Apply “Objective Journalism”. Cases of Study of Italy and Spain. Tripodos, (54), 02. https://doi.org/10.51698/tripodos.2023.54.02
• Cano-Orón, L., & Ruiz, C. (2023). Medicina complementaria y alternativa en Youtube: un estudio exploratorio de las comunidades de creadores de contenidos. Contratexto, (39), 215-241. DOI
• Baviera, T.; Cano-Orón, L. & Calvo, D. (2023): Tailored Messages in the Feed? Political Microtargeting on Facebook during the 2019 General Elections in Spain. Journal of Political Marketing. DOI
• Cano-Orón, L., & Lopera-Pareja, E. H. (2023). Media and Science Policy: Who Influences Whom Regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicines Regulation. The International Journal of Press/Politics,28(3) 691–713. DOI
• Gamir-Ríos, J., & Cano-Orón, L. (2022). Characteristics of the Spanish podcast sphere. Between democratization and commercial logic. Profesional De La información, 31(5). DOI
• Omena, J. J.; Cano-Orón, L.; Gobbo, B. & Flores, A. M. (2022). What are data sprints for?. Dígitos. Revista de Comunicación Digital, 8: 9-30. DOI
• Gamir-Ríos, J.; Cano-Orón, L. & Baviera, T. (2022). Análisis del aumento de seguidores y de la presencia multiplataforma de la clase política en Facebook, Twitter e Instagram en campañas electorales (2011-2019). Fonseca. Journal of Communication, 24, 211-231. DOI
• Calvo, D.; Cano-Orón, L. & Llorca- Abad, G. (2022). COVID-19 vaccine disinformation on YouTube: Analysis of a viewing network. Communication & Society, 35(2), 223-238. DOI
• Gamir-Ríos, J; Cano-Orón, L.; Fenoll, V. & Iranzo-Cabrera, M. (2022). Evolución de la comunicación política digital (2011-2019): o caso de los blogs, declive de Facebook, generalización de Twitter y popularización de Instagram. Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, 16(1), 90-115. DOI
• Gamir-Ríos, J.; Cano-Orón, L. & Lava-Santos, D. (2022). De la localización a la movilización. Evolución del uso electoral de Instagram en España de 2015 a 2019. Revista de Comunicación, 21(1),159-179. DOI
• Cano-Orón, L.; Calvo, D.; Llorca-Abad, G. & Mestre-Pérez, R. (2021). Media crisis and disinformation: the participation of digital newspapers in the dissemination of a denialist hoax. Profesional de la información, 30(4), e300412. DOI
• Díez-Garrido, M., Renedo Farpón, C., & Cano-Orón, L. (2021). La desinformación en las redes de mensajería instantánea. Estudio de las fake news en los canales relacionados con la ultraderecha española en Telegram. Miguel Hernández Communication Journal, 12, 467-489. DOI
• Calvo, D., Cano-Orón, L., & Baviera, T. (2021). Global Spaces for Local Politics: An Exploratory Analysis of Facebook Ads in Spanish Election Campaigns. Social Sciences, 10(7), 271. DOI
• Cano-Orón, L., Calvo, D., López García, G., & Baviera, T. (2021). Disinformation in Facebook Ads in the 2019 Spanish General Election Campaigns. Media and Communication, 9(1), 217-228. DOI
• Lopera-Pareja, E. H., & Cano-Orón, L. (2021). Media’s portrayal of CAM: Exploring 40 years of narratives and meanings in public discourse. Journalism. DOI
• Moreno-Castro, C., Vengut-Climent, E., Cano-Orón, L., & Mendoza-Poudereux, I. (2021). Exploratory study of the hoaxes spread via WhatsApp in Spain to prevent and/or cure COVID-19. Gaceta Sanitaria, 35(6), 534-541. DOI
• Peris Blanes, À., López García, G., Cano-Orón, L., & Fenoll, V. (2020). Mediatización y mítines durante la campaña a las elecciones autonómicas valencianas de 2019: entre la «lógica mediática» y la «lógica política». Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat, 134(1), 53-70. Available here
• Calvo, D., Cano-Orón, L., & Esteban, A. (2020). Materiales y evaluación del nivel de alfabetización para el reconocimiento de bots sociales en contextos de desinformación política. Revista ICONO14 Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes, 18(2), 111-137. Available here
• Cano-Orón, L., Vengut-Climent, E., & Moreno-Castro, C. (2020). Mental health images on the Internet: A Facebook and digital media content analysis in Spanish. Revista Prisma Social, (29), 240-259. Available here
• Cano-Orón, L., Mendoza-Poudereux, I. & Moreno-Castro, C. (2019). ‘The rise of skepticism in Spanish political and digital media contexts’. JCOM 18(03), A01. DOI
• Cano-Orón, L. & Portalés-Oliva, M. (2019). Valoración y confianza de los espectadores de los programas de salud de TVE. Arbor, 195 (793): a520. DOI
• Cano-Orón, L. (2019). A Twitter campaign against pseudoscience: The sceptical discourse on complementary therapies in Spain. Public Understanding of Science, 28(6), 679-695. DOI
• Fenoll, V. & Cano-Orón, L. (2019). Communicative differences between emergent and traditional parties: An analysis of Facebook posts from Spain’s 2015 general election campaign. Zer, 24(46) 37-51. Available here
• Cano-Orón, L. (2019). “Dr. Google, what can you tell me about homeopathy? Comparative study of the top10 websites in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Mexico and Spain”. El profesional de la información, 28(2), e280213. Available here
• Cano-Orón, L., Mendoza-Poudereux, I. & Moreno-Castro, C. (2018). Perfil sociodemográfico del usuario de la homeopatía en España. Atención Primaria, 51(8), 499-505. DOI
• Zurbano-Berenguer, B., Cano-Orón, L. & Liberia Vayá, I. (2018). Gender Studies in Communication Research: A Longitudinal Analysis of Scientific Papers Published in Spanish Journals Indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) (1988–2017). Journal of Research in Gender Studies 8(2): 169–200. Available here
• Cano-Orón, L. & Llorca-Abad, G. (2018). La configuración invisible del espacio digital: el caso de Facebook. Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, 12(3): 106-121. Available here
• Cano-Orón, L. & Moreno. C. (2017). Las terapias no convencionales en la campaña de las elecciones generales de 2015. Revista de Comunicación y Salud, 7, 29-47. Available here
• Peris Blanes, À.; Baviera Puig, T. & Cano-Orón, L. (2017). Political marketing through infotainment TV programs: content analysis and emotional response on Twitter. Textual and Visual Media, 10, 103-116.
• Fenoll, V. & Cano-Orón, L. (2017). Citizen engagement on Spanish political parties’ Facebook pages: Analysis of the 2015 electoral campaign comments. Communication & Society, 30(4), 131-145. Available here
• Cano-Orón, L. & Llorca-Abad, G. (2017). Análisis del discurso oficial de la casa real en Twitter durante el periodo de abdicación del Rey Juan Carlos I y la coronación de Felipe VI. Perspectivas de la Comunicación, 10 (1), 29-54. Available here
• Baviera,T.; Peris, À. & Cano-Orón, L. (2019). Political candidates in infotainment programmes and their emotional effects on Twitter: an analysis of the 2015 Spanish general elections pre-campaign season. Contemporary Social Science, 14(1), 144-156 doi
• Cano-Orón, L.; Portalés Oliva, M. & Llorca-Abad, G. (2017). La divulgación de salud en la televisión pública: el caso de RTVE en 2016. adComunica. Revista Científica de Estrategias, Tendencias e Innovación en Comunicación, nº14, pp. 201-228. Castellón: Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Comunicación adComunica y Universitat Jaume I. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.6035/2174-0992.2017.14.11
• Cano-Orón, L. (2016). Correlación entre las búsquedas sobre terapias complementarias en Google y su uso por parte de la población española. Panace@, Vol. XVII, nº 44, 124-132.
• López García, G., Cano-Orón, L. & Argilés Martínez, L. (2016). Circulación de los mensajes y establecimiento de la agenda en Twitter: el caso de las elecciones autonómicas de 2015 en la Comunidad Valenciana. Trípodos, 39, 163-183. Available here
• Llorca-Abad, G. & Cano-Orón, L. (2016). How Social Networks and Data Brokers trade with Private Data. Redes.com. Revista de estudios para el desarrollo social de la comunicación, 14, 84-103. Available here
• Llorca-Abad, G. & Cano-Orón, L. (2015). Espacio y tiempo en el siglo XXI: velocidad, instantaneidad y su repercusión en la comunicación humana. ComHumanitas: Revista Científica de Comunicación, 6(1), 219-233. Available here
• López García, G.; Gamir Ríos, J.; García Ull, F.; González Esteban, J.L.; Llorca-Abad, G.; Cano-Orón, L. (2015) El debate sobre Europa en Twitter. Discursos y estrategias de los candidatos de las Elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 2014 en España. Revista de Estudios Políticos, 170, 213-246. Available here
• Cano-Orón, L. (2013). Redes sociales, una oportunidad ante la crisis. Estudio cualitativo sobre hábitos de uso de la comunicación digital. Faro, 17, 39-45. Available here

Book Chapters

• Cano-Orón, L; Calvo, D; Mestre, R. & Meneu, M. (2023). La deconstrucción de la información: tipologías de desinformación en redes sociales. En G. López García (Ed.). Ecología de la desinformación y su impacto en el espacio público (pp. 113-136). New York: Peter Lang (DOI).
• Calvo, D; Llorca-Abad, G. & Cano-Orón, L. (2023). Dimensiones estructural, económica y pragmática de la crisis de la (des)información. En G. López García (Ed.). Ecología de la desinformación y su impacto en el espacio público (pp. 49-72). New York: Peter Lang (DOI).
• Llorca-Abad, G. & Cano-Orón, L. (2023). Lo studio della disinformazione nel campo della comunicazione. Uno sguardo d’insieme sulla sua evoluzione in Spagna. En F. Rizzuto y S. Vaccaro (eds.). Il giornalismo nell’era della disinformazione (pp.179-190). Milan: Mimesis Edizioni
• Cano-Orón, L. & Llorca-Abad, G. (2022). Reconstruir la universidad: identificando problemas y soluciones de la investigación y de la docencia. En Calvo, D.; Llorca-Abad, G.; Cano-Orón, L. y Cabrera, D. (Coords.). Academia (des)acelerada. Encierros, entusiasmos y epidemias (pp.211-238). Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de la Comunicació.
• Díez-Garrido, M; Calvo, D. & Cano-Orón, L. (2022). The Mirage of Truth: The Instrumentalization of Fact-Checking to Spread an Ideological Discourse. In D. Palau-Sampio; G. López García & L. Iannelli (eds.), Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy (pp. 133-151). IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8057-8.ch008
• Cano-Orón, L; Renedo, C.; Díez-Garrido, M. y García-Ull, F. J. (2021). La campaña por mensajería instantánea: Uso de los partidos de WhatsApp y Telegram en las elecciones del 28A. En G. López García y E. Campos Domínguez (eds.), Redes en campaña. Liderazgos y mensajes en las elecciones de 2019 (pp.193-214). Comunicación Social. ISBN: 978-84-17600-61-7
• Calvo, D.; Cano-Orón, L.; Llorca-Abad, G. y Gamir-Ríos, G. (2021). La campaña subterránea: sesgos informativos y noticias falsas. En G. López García y E. Campos Domínguez (eds.), Redes en campaña. Liderazgos y mensajes en las elecciones de 2019 (pp.105-122). Comunicación Social. ISBN: 978-84-17600-61-7
• Llorca-Abad, G.; López-García, G. y Cano-Orón, L. (2021). Spanish Politicians Dealing with Fake News in the April 2019 General Election. En G. Lopez-Garcia; D. Palau-Sampio; B. Palomo; E. Campos-Dominguez y P. Masip (eds.), Politics of Disinformation (pp. 91-104). Wiley-Blackwell.
• Cano-Orón, L. (2019). Aproximación al estado y discurso de las medicinas complementarias e integrativas en Estados Unidos y Canadá. En C. Moreno-Castro y L. Cano-Orón (coords.), Terapias alternativas en la esfera pública (pp. 53-70) . Madrid: Dextra Editorial.
• López García, G.; Iglesias, M. y Cano-Orón, L. (2019). Cibermitjans valencians: continguts, estructura i activitat a les xarxes socials. En G. López García (ed.) La comunicació a la Comunitat Valenciana (2010-2018): Crisi i canvi (pp. 229-251). Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim
• Llopis Goig, R.; Agulló Calatayud, V.; Ariño Villarroya, A.; Cano-Orón, L.; Castelló Cogollos, R.; Hernández Dobón, F. J.; y López García, G. (2018). Consumo, Cultura y Ocio. En A. Ariño Villarroya (dir.) y P. García Pilán (coord.), La sociedad valenciana en transformación (1975-2025) (pp. 389-432). Valencia: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valencia.
• Gamir Ríos, J., Cano-Orón, L. y Calvo Miguel, D. (2017). «La campaña electoral de 2015 en cifras. La presencia en la blogosfera, Facebook y Twitter de los cabezas de lista provinciales de PP, PSOE, Podemos y Ciudadanos». En López García, G. y Valera Ordaz, L. (eds.). Pantallas electorales. El discurso de partidos, medios y ciudadanos en la campaña de 2015, pp. 41-54. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
• Baviera Puig, T., García Ull, F. J. y Cano-Orón, L. (2017). «Twitter: ¿protagonismo vicario?». En López García, G. y Valera Ordaz, L. (eds.). Pantallas electorales. El discurso de partidos, medios y ciudadanos en la campaña de 2015, pp. 167-190. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
• Cano Orón, Lorena y Moreno Castro, Carolina(2016) “Las terapias no convencionales en los programas políticos y en los tuits publicados por los cabezas de lista de Ciudadanos, Podemos, PP, PSOE y Unidad Popular, durante la campaña de las Elecciones Generales de 2015”, en Blanco Castilla, E. y Teruel Rodríguez, L. (Eds.) (2016). Periodismo de Datos. Nuevas narrativas para el Periodismo Especializado, pp. 171-178. Available here

Books

• Calvo, D.; Llorca-Abad, G.; Cano-Orón, L. & Cabrera, D. (Coords.).(2022). Academia (des)acelerada. Encierros, entusiasmos y epidemias. Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de la Comunicació. ISBN 978-84-124136-2-5. Available here
• Calvo, D. y Cano-Orón, L. (2021). Investigación social libre. Herramientas libres para las Ciencias Sociales. Valencia: Interferencias/Mediaflows. ISBN 978-84-120432-8-0 Available here
• Moreno Castro, C. y Cano-Orón, L. (Coords.). (2019). Terapias alternativas en la esfera pública. Madrid: Dextra. ISBN:978-84-17946-04
• Cano-Orón, L. y Moreno Castro, C. (2019). Construcción periodística de la salud mental y actitud de los españoles en la búsqueda y producción de información digital. Valencia: Federació Salut Mental Comunitat Valenciana. ISBN: 978-84-949959-4-1

Mária Džunková got her first experience with the high throughput DNA sequencing at the Czech Academy of Sciences at the time when she  studied at the University of Life Sciences in Prague (2005-2010). Then she moved to Spain for her PhD studies at the University of Valencia (2010-2016) which included a research stay at the Harvard University (2014). After defending her PhD thesis entitled ”Metagenomics of the Human Gut Microbiome Directed by the Flow Cytometry” she got a postdoc position at the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics at the University of Queensland (2016-2019), where she developed “single-cell viral tagging” method for exploring the phage host range without the need for microbial culturing and applied it to the human gut microbiome. She was invited to a second postdoc (2016-2021) at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) to continue with her microbial single-cell genomics techniques. In California she studied the relationships between the phages and bacteria in environmental samples and explored new targeted single-cell genomics techniques for discovering symbiotic microbes of the marine soft-bodied animals capable of producing bioactive molecules. She joined the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio) in December 2021 to set up her Microbial Single-Cell Genomics research group.

M.L. Gil graduated in Pharmacy at the University of Valencia (UV) in 1985. She received a PhD in 1989 for research on the identification of cell-wall proteins of Candida albicans at the Microbiology Department (UV). As a post-doctoral fellow she joined Didier Fradelizi Immunoloy laboratory at the Institute Gustave Roussy, in Paris. During the post-doctoral she graduated in Immunology at the Pasteur Institute and also participated in research that led to the identification of a new human leukocyte molecule (CD82). Back in Spain, in 1994, she was appointed as Assitant Professor, and in 1999, as Associate Professor, at the University of Valencia. In 2004 she started an independent research group that focused on the antifungal innate immunity and was promoted to Full Professor at the University of Valencia in 2011.    

Since her return to Spain, her research has focused on studying the pathogen/host interaction during candidiasis. In the first years, the research focused on the characterization of virulence factors of the fungus, then to address the study of the immune response, and specifically the participation of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in the recognition of C. albicans, Since 2007, it has extended the study of the participation of TLRs in the interaction of C. albicans with the immune system, to hematopoietic stem cells, following the discovery that these cells express functional TLRs. Her main line of current research examines how the activation of PRRs in stem cells and hematopoietic progenitors, induces myeloid differentiation as well as in the implications in the phenotype of the macrophages they generate and in the protection against candidiasis; the results obtained show that the "memory" of innate immunity affects not only monocytes and macrophages but also the progenitors.

Dr. Rafael Moner Colonques earned a Bachelor degree in Economics at the Universitat de València (Valencia, Spain), a Master of Arts in Industrial Economics with distinction at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and, a Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics under the European Doctoral Programme at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He is Professor of Economics in the Economic Analysis Department at the Universitat de València. His main research areas of interest include industrial economics, economics of innovation, transportation economics, international oligopolies and competition policy. His publication record includes more than thirty papers in specialist journals such as Applied Economics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transport Policy, among others. He has supervised 6 PhD dissertations and 15 Master Thesis. He has participated in more than eighty international and Spanish conferences. He has participated in twenty five research projects. He is the research head of the research project “Transport, energy and R&D policies under imperfect competition and externalities” (ECO2016-77589-R) financed by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Madrid, Spain) to be completed in December 2019.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Alvarez SanJaime, O., P. Cantos Sánchez, R. Moner-Colonques and J.J. Sempere-Monerris, “A three-stage competition game in an air transport network under asymmetric valuation of flight frequencies”, Economics of Transportation, 21, 100141, (2020).
2. Alvarez SanJaime, O., P. Cantos Sánchez, R. Moner-Colonques and J.J. Sempere-Monerris, “Rail access charges and internal competition in High Speed Trains”, Transport Policy, 49, 184-195, (2016).
3. Mendi, P., R. Moner-Colonques and J.J. Sempere-Monerris, “Optimal know-how transfers in licensing contracts”, Journal of Economics, 118(2), 121-139, (2016).
4. Moner-Colonques, R., J.J. Sempere-Monerris and A. Urbano, “Strategic Delegation with Multiproduct Firms”, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. 13,405-427 (2004).
5. Moner-Colonques, R. “Cost Uncertainty and Trade Liberalization in International Oligopoly”. Journal of International Economics 45, 369-376. (1998).

Dr. Jose J. Sempere Monerris earned a degree in Economics with honors at the University of Valencia, a Master in Industrial Economics with distinction at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and a Ph. D. in Quantitative Economics (1995) under the European Doctoral Programme at CORE-UCL. He is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Research Fellow at the ERI-CEs (University of Valencia) and Research Associate at CORE- UCL. He was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Strategy and Business Economics Division of the Sauder School of Business at the University British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) from August 2010 to August 2011. During his PhD he got different scholarships from the Generalitat Valenciana, the College of Spain in Paris-Fundación Banco Exterior de España, and the Human Capital and Mobility Programme of the European Union (Currently Marie Curie Fellowships). His main research areas of interest include industrial economics, economics of innovation, transportation economics, networks and competition policy. He is co-author of more than thirty papers in specialist journals such as Applied Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Economics , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transport Policy among others. He has supervised 4 PhD dissertations and 17 Master Thesis. He has participated in more than ninety international and Spanish conferences. He has been a member in more than fifteen competitive research grants financed by EU or National institutions or financed by Private institutions.

Academic IDs:

ORCID: 0000-0001-6759-2117
Researcher ID: E-6234-2016
Scopus Author ID: 6507343777

Selected publications:

1. Óscar Álvarez-SanJaime; Pedro Cantos-Sánchez; Rafael Moner-Coloques, Jose J. Sempere-Monerris (2021) The effect of cooperative infrastructure fees on high-speed rail and airline competition. Transport Policy, 112, pp. 125 - 141 . ISSN: 0967-070X

2. Pedro Mendi; Rafael Moner-Colonques; José J. Sempere-Monerris (2020) Cooperation for Innovation and Technology Licensing: Empirical Evidence from Spain. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 154(119976), pp. 1 - 7 . ISSN: 0040-1625

3. Álvarez-San Jaime, Óscar, Pedro Cantos Sánchez, Rafael Moner-Colonques and Jose J. Sempere-Monerris (2016) “Rail Access charges and internal competition in high speed trains”, Transport Policy, vol. 49, pp: 184-195.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.04.006

4. Óscar Álvarez San Jaime; Pedro Cantos; Rafael Moner Colonques; Jose J. Sempere-Monerris. (2015) The impact on port competition of the integration of port and inland transport services. Transportation Research Part B-Methodological, 71(80), pp. 291 - 302 . ISSN: 0191-2615

5. Óscar Álvarez San Jaime; Pedro Cantos Sanchez; Rafael Moner Colonques; José J. Sempere Monerris (2013) Competition and horizontal integration in maritime freight transport. Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review, 51(5), pp. 67 - 81 . ISSN: 1366-5545 

6. Óscar Álvarez San Jaime; Pedro Cantos Sanchez; Rafael Moner Colonques; José J. Sempere Monerris (2013) Vertical integration and exclusivities in maritime freight transport. Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review, 51(5), pp. 50 - 61 . ISSN: 1366-5545

7. Mauleon, Ana, Jose J. Sempere-Monerris and Vincent J. Vannetelbosch. (2011) “Networks of Manufacturers and Retailers“, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 77, pp. 351-367. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2010.11.007
8. Moner-Colonques, Rafael, Jose J. Sempere-Monerris and Amparo Urbano. (2004) “Strategic Delegation with Multi-Product Firms”, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy vol. 13 (3) pp. 405-427 Fall (2004).

I obtained my Bachelor, Postgraduate and PhD degrees in the University of Valencia, Spain. My doctoral research focused on the role of pattern recognition receptors expressed by hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in the detection of Candida albicans and the emergency myelopoiesis response. I was awarded with a “Outstanding PhD Thesis” from the University of Valencia.

In 2011, I joined the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA, as a postdoctoral fellow. During this time, I studied the differentiation and function of myeloid cells (macrophages, dendritic cells and neutrophils) with specific application to anti-microbial immunity, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. I obtained a Young Investigator Award from the International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society, a Careers in Immunology Fellowship Award by The American Association of Immunologists and a Career-Enhancement Award from the American Society of Hematology.

In 2018, I established my independent research group at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as an Assistant Professor. In 2019, I received a Ramón y Cajal award from the Ministry of Education and Science, Spain, and I moved back to the University of Valencia, Spain.

My lab is interested in: 1) defining the cellular and molecular pathways activated for emergency myelopoiesis in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells during candidiasis, 2) unveiling the mechanisms of innate trained immunity induced by fungal infections, and 3) studying the use of microbial components to induce terminal differentiation of malignant cells in some hematologic disorders, such as acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes.