PI-Invest Cont Ramon y Cajal
Department: Cellular Biology, Functional Biology and Physical Anthropol.
Dr Torres-Pérez (he/him) is a neurobiologist interested on the epigenetic landscape regulating neural development and its impact on neurodegenerative disorders. He is currently working at University of Valencia (UV) as a distinghuished researcher under the Maria Zambrano's program (Ministry of Universities, Spain). He has been successfully involved in a wide range of multi-disciplinary projects spanning from clinical settings to academic scenarios with engineers/materials scientists and experimental psychologists.
Dr Torres-Pérez gained his undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Valencia (UV) and then moved to Oxford for a 6-month internship at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. After that, Dr Torres-Pérez did a MRes in Neuroscience at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. For his PhD in Clinical Medicine Research, Dr Torres-Pérez worked with Dr Istvan Nagy at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Imperial College London. He investigated the role different epigenetic tags, mainly histone post-translational modifications, play on the transition from acute to chronic pain at neurons and glial cells of both spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia.
Dr Torres-Pérez has held two postdoctoral positions at Queen Mary University of London. First at the School of Engineering and Materials Science, where he was performing high-resolution electrophysiology of primary cilia and single cell calcium recordings. Secondly, at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, where he used zebrafish as a reverse genetic model for comparative cognition.