Short biography
Born in Bilbao, Soraya began her degree in Biology at the University of the Basque Country and later moved to Madrid to specialize in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She graduated from the UAM in 1989. For her PhD studies, she joined Dr. Morata’s laboratory at the CBMSO, where she conducted research in Drosophila developmental genetics. She was supported by a Basque Government predoctoral fellowship and obtained her PhD from UAM in 1993. For her postdoctoral training, she moved from flies to flowers by joining Dr. Yanofsky’s laboratory at the UCSD. There, she carried out research in developmental biology using Arabidopsis thaliana, supported by fellowships from the Spanish MEC and the HFSP. In 2001, she was awarded a Ramón y Cajal, and in 2003 she became ICREA Research Professor to lead her research in Floral induction and development at CRAG. Throughout her career, she also undertook stays at UNAM (Mexico), WUR (The Netherlands), the MPIPZ (Germany), and NYU and NYBG (USA).
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