Maria
Pau

MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences

Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Universitat de Barcelona

Driven by a deep interest in structural biology, specially in molecular modeling, ligand docking and dynamic simulations to elucidate the precise protein-substrate interactions that underpin biocatalytic efficiency and to decode the complex protein-protein interactions associated with human disease pathology.

BSc in Biotechnology

Universitat de Lleida

Specialized in Pharmaceutical biotechnology, Biomedical biotechnology (highest honors), Molecular pathology and biomedical diagnostics and Applications of multivariate analysis in biotechnology.

Undergraduate Research Fellow

IRB Lleida & Agrotecnio

During my internship, I spearheaded a metabolic engineering project focused on the directed evolution of bacterial strains to synthesize high-value pharmaceutical precursors. I executed an integrated workflow that bridged "wet-lab" experimentation with advanced computational analytics, performing comparative genomic analysis against bacterial homologs to identify conserved functional domains for targeted mutation. By utilizing Python for automated data handling and structural biology tools to model the molecular impact of these variants, I characterized metabolic shifts with the hypothesized application of enhancing the biodegradation of environmental pollutants. This research demonstrated a scalable approach to sustainable biomanufacturing while providing a structural basis for future bioremediation studies.

Undergraduate Scientific Researcher

Cell Cycle Laboratory, IRB Lleida · Cyclin D1 study