I studied Biology and Biochemistry at the Universities of Extremadura and Salamanca, before falling in love with research during my Master’s in the group of José M. de Pereda at the Cancer Research Center.
For my PhD, I joined Guillermo Montoya's group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO, Madrid) and later at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (NNF-CPR, Copenhagen), where I used biochemistry and X-ray crystallography to study chromatin recognition and CRISPR-Cas complexes.
In 2018, I moved to Lori Passmore's lab at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, where I used cryoEM and single-molecule imaging to investigate the molecular mechanisms of the Fanconi Anemia pathway.
In 2024, I was awarded a Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship to establish a research group at Aarhus University's Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, where we investigate the structure and function of chromatin-associated tumor suppressors.
Josefine completed her PhD in Gregers Rom Andersen's lab at MBG, working on the biochemical and biophysical characterization of complement proteins, primarily using X-ray crystallography and cryoEM.
Josefine joined the lab in 2025 as a postdoc to work on the structural characterization of chromatin binding proteins.
Son studied Biotechnology Engineering in Vietnam before joining the Molecular Virology Lab at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, for his master’s degree in Medical Science, completed in 2024. There, Son used biochemistry and cryoEM to investigate the structure and function of influenza A RNA polymerase, aiming to elucidate its mammalian adaptation.
In 2025, Son joined the Mechanisms of Chromatin Repair lab as a PhD student, where he studies the structure and mechanisms of DNA repair enzymes using biochemistry and cryoEM.
