Luis Blanco#
| Membership Number: | 6848 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cbm.uam.es/en/research/programs/genome-dynamics-and-function/genome-maintenance-and-instability/genome-maintenance-and-variability-enzymology-of-dna-replication-and-repair |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5558-4435 |
| Twitter: | @lblancodavila1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Research Professor (Spanish Research Council / CSIC)
- 1998 - 2006 Research Scientist /Group leader (CBMSO-CSIC. Madrid, Spain)
- 1988 - 1998 Staff Scientist (Spanish Research Council / CSIC)
- 1986 - 1988 Associate Professor of Biochemistry (Univ. Autonoma Madrid, Spain)
- 1985 - 1988 Postdoctoral Fellow (CBMSO. Madrid, Spain)
- 1982 - 1985 PhD Student (CBMSO. Madrid, Spain)
- 1980 - 1982 PhD Student (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Fields of Scholarship
- Discovery of bacteriophage phi29 DNA polymerase
- Double strand DNA break repair in bacteria and eukarya
- Discovery and characterization of human PrimPol
- Mechanisms of DNA replication
- DNA amplification methods and their use in biotecnology and genome analysis
- Discovery of human Pol lambda and human Polmu
- Terminal proteins as non-conventional primers for DNA replication
- Engineering of DNA polymerases as improved biotechnological tools
- DNA polymerases and primases involved in DNA damage tolerance and DNA replication stress
Honours and Awards
- 2014 XX Carmen & Severo Ochoa Award in Molecular Biology
- 1985 PhD Extraordinary Award, Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of de Madrid, Spain
- 1980 B.A. Extraordinary Award, Faculty of Sciences, Santiago de Compostela University, Spain
