He is an expert in cardiac physiology and mouse surgery, including procedures such as transverse aortic constriction (TAC).
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Manuel Rosa-Garrido
Principal Investigator
Manuel received his Ph.D. from UC (Spain), where he investigated the role of the epigenetic factor CTCF in cancer progression. He then completed his postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA (USA), where he pioneered high-resolution chromatin conformation capture methods to study genome remodeling in cardiac disease. He was subsequently hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UAB (USA), where he led a research program focused on epigenetic therapies for heart failure.
Manuel is now a Principal Investigator at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and works at IBBTEC in Spain, where he leads his group in cardiac epigenetics and chromatin structure.
email: rosam at unican.es
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Aixa X. Andrade
Postdoctoral Fellow
Aixa holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, specializing in Bioinformatics, from UT Southwestern Medical Center (USA), an M.Sc. in Medical Radiation Physics from McGill University (Canada), and a B.Sc. in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Aixa is passionate about applying bioinformatics and leveraging cutting-edge foundation models to explore complex biological questions. At the Rosa-Garrido Lab, she applies these models to diverse biological datasets, including chromatin structure data, to uncover novel insights into genome organization and regulation.
Xiaoxiao Geng
Graduate student
Xiaoxiao is a Ph.D. trainee in the Biomedical Engineering program at UAB (USA), participating in a collaborative initiative between the Zhang and the Rosa-Garrido labs.
Her research focuses on cellular therapy for myocardial infarction and epigentic regulation in cardiovascular disease. She has extensive expertise in molecular biology and sequencing library preparation.
Outside the lab, she likes cooking, playing ukelele, and hiking.
Eduardo Useche Bernal
Graduate Student
Eduardo Useche is a physician holding a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine awarded by the UC (Spain). His scientific curiosity has led him to delve into the field of biomedical research, with the aim of integrating his clinical training with laboratory work.
Outside the academic sphere, Eduardo is a musician and enjoys activities such as basketball, motorsports, traveling, reading, and spending time with his family and friends.
Manuel Cobo Belaustegui
Physician
Dr. Cobo is the Medical Transplant Coordinator at Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, with extensive experience in obtaining patient samples, developing protocols for their collection and processing for research, as well as conducting clinical trials.
He is an expert in cardiac physiology and echocardiography and provides both technical and intellectual support to the Rosa-Garrido Lab.
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Diego González Pérez
Undergraduate thesis (TFG)
Diego is a final-year Biomedical Sciences student at the UC (Spain). He is particularly interested in bioinformatics, molecular biology and genomics.
His current research focuses on the computational analysis of sex-based differences in the cardiac genome. Through this experience, he aims to strengthen his computational skills and deepen his understanding of genomic data interpretation in cardiovascular research.
Outside of academia, Diego enjoys traveling, cinema, and music.
Giorgia Codispoti
Erasmus+
Giorgia is a Biotechnology visiting scholar from the University of Padova who joined the Rosa-Garrido Lab through the Erasmus+ program.
She is very interested in developing new bioinformatics tools to analyze high-throughput sequencing data and new protocols to improve cardiomyocyte differentiation from iPS cells.
email: giorgia.codispoti at studenti.unipd.it
Former Members
Justin Bridges (Graduate Student)
Karleigh G. Henegar (Undergraduate Thesis, TFM)
Cristen Elizabeth Knapp (Undergraduate Thesis, TFM)
Rujula Pradeep (Undergraduate Student)
Larry Byers (Undergraduate Student)
Jose Ramirez Guerrero (Undergraduate Student)
Avantika Reddy (Undergraduate Student)
Oliver Brooks (Undergraduate Student)
Vrund Patel (High School Summer Volunteer)
Christopher Lobo (High School Summer Volunteer)