PUJOL ALTARRIBA, Anna

Academic training

Doctor in Biological Sciences, UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA
Graduate in Biological Sciences, UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA

Professional experience

HEAD OF THE "UNITAT D'ANIMALS TRANSGÈNICS"
From 2004 to the present, Dr. Anna Pujol works as Head of the Transgenic Animals Unit (UAT) of the Center for Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy (CBATEG) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), occupying a Staff position of Administration and Official Services (PAS-Technical Management Corps). Its functions are the scientific-technical, administrative and economic organization and management of the technological platform. The activity of the SBA and the UAT has focused on the design, production and analysis of transgenic animals (mouse and rat) by pronuclear microinjection of DNA into zygotes and Knockout/in animals by homologous recombination in pluripotent embryonic cells and subsequent injection into blastocysts. /morulae or by using sequence-specific nucleases such as the CRISPR/Cas9 system. In addition, the UAT offers all technologies related to the management and maintenance of genetically modified rat and mouse lines such as sanitary re-derivation, cryopreservation of embryos, oocytes, ovaries and sperm, and the revitalization of lines from embryos or sperm, in vitro fertilization. The services offered by the UAT are aimed at the entire scientific community. Likewise, the UAT participates or collaborates in research projects from both UAB and external groups. To date, the UAT has already carried out hundreds of technological services and scientific collaborations, both national and international, in the field of transgenesis in mice and rats.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the UAB. From 2002 to the present, Dr. Anna Pujol is an Associate Professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB and teaches classes related to animal transgenesis in the degrees of Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Biomedical Sciences and Genetics, as well as in various Masters and Courses.