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	October 2023 We all congratulate our colleague Dr Rafael Molina Monterrubio  for having been promoted to Associate Scientist of the CSIC.
	October 2023. We all congratulate our colleague Dr Jose M. Martín García for having been promoted to Associate Scientist of the CSIC.
	February 2023 We welcome Celia Miró, who will be doing her TFG work in our Department, under the direction of Dr. M.J. Sánchez Barrena
	February 2023 We welcome Irene Caro, a new internship student who has joined our Department with a JAE Intro ICU fellowship. She will be with us until July, working under the supervision of Dr. Inmaculada Pérez.
	February 2023 We welcome Sofia Irles who has joined the group of Dr. Armando Albert, to work on the wet lab to characterize SOS2 as a Calcium sensor, as a part of her M Phil.
	February 2023 We welcome Alba Garay, who will spend some months among us with a JAE INTRO grant. She will work on different projects related with bacterial structural biology in the group of Dr. Juan A. Hermoso
	February 2023 We welcome Claudia Gil Manso, who will be doing her TFG work in our Department until June 30th, under the direction of Dr. Beatriz González
	February 2023 We welcome Angela Gomez (MPhil), on the left, and Javier Merino (Postdoc), on the right, who are joining us to work on the chemical activation of drought response in plants. They will work under the direction of Dr. A. Albert
	February 2023 We welcome Isabel Quereda, that has been granted with a JAE INTRO-ICU Fellowship. She will be working with us until July 31th, under the direction of Dr. Jose M. Martin
	February 2023 We welcome Teresa Castillo, who will be doing her TFG work in our Department until June 30th, under the direction of Dr. M.J. Sánchez Barrena
	January 2023 Our colleague, Vega Miguel Ruano has been the winner of the medal for the best contribution in poster format at the GE3C meeting held in 2023, for her work entitled 'Unravelling the Antibiotic Resistance mediated by BlaR1 in the Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus'. (PhD Director: Dr. Juan A. Hermoso) Congratulations!!!
	October 2022 We congratulate our colleague Dr María Márquez Moñino, who obtained her PhD degree at the Univ. Autónoma of Madrid (PhD director: Dr. Beatriz González)
	September 2022 Lena Caruso joined us for a three months stay. She will be working on multicomponent crystallization on the supervision of Dr. Lourdes Infantes San Mateo
	September 2022 Successful participation of our Department at the 44th SEBBM Congress celebrated in Málaga: Our colleague and "Ramón y Cajal" Fellow, Dr. Rafael Molina (left), presented his work developed in Denmark (NNF-CPR-University of Copenhagen) and received the 2nd MDPI-SEBBM Best poster Prize. Our PhD student Daniel Muñoz-Reyes (right), working under the supervision of Dr. María José Sánchez-Barrena was awarded with the IUBMB Best Short Talk Presentation Prize at the Protein Structure & Function Meeting celebrated in the Congress. Well done guys!
	September 2022 We welcome Uxía Pérez, as a new PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Juan A. Hermoso
	July 2022 It was a time to celebrate!. Our colleague, Dr. Rafael Molina, obtained a Ramón y Cajal contract to join our Department as a RyC Research Fellow.
	July 2022 We congratulate our colleague Dr Isabel Cea Rama, who obtained her PhD degree at the Univ. Autónoma of Madrid (PhD director: Dr. Julia Sanz)
	June 2022 Our colleague Maria Rivera Moreno, working under the supervision of Dr. Armando Albert, won the award for the best poster presented during the course called Biomolecules in Action III organized at the DESY synchrotron campus in Hamburg, organized by FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies).
	April 2022 We congratulate our colleague Dr. Armando Albert, who has been promoted to Research Professor of the CSIC.
	April 2022 We congratulate our colleague Dr Juan Luis Benavente, who obtained his PhD degree at the Univ. Autónoma of Madrid (PhD director: Dr. Armando Albert)
	March 2022 We congratulate our colleague Dr Elena Jiménez, who obtained her PhD degree at the Univ. Complutense of Madrid (PhD director: Dr. Julia Sanz)
	March 2022 María Luisa Lomo, an undergraduated student from the UPM joined us for a 3-4 months stay under the supervision of Dr M.J. Sánchez Barrena
	March 2022 Sandra Fernández, an undergraduated student from the UCM joined us for a 3-4 months stay under the supervision of Dr M.J. Sánchez Barrena
	February 2022 Sonia Fuidio Rodríguez, an undergraduated student from the UCM joined us for a 3-4 months stay under the supervision of Dr. Beatriz González Pérez
	February 2022 Marta Fernández, an undergraduate student joined our Department for a 5 months stay, involved in the characterization of the regulatory interaction of the calcium sensor SOS3 and the Na/H antiporter SOS1 under the supervision of Dr. Armando Albert.
	February 2022 Arturo Grano de Oro Tuñón, a new MRes (TFM) student has joined us under the supervision of Dr. Beatriz González Pérez
	December 2021 Our colleague Alice Grieco was compiting in the III Edition of "Yo investigo. Yo soy CSIC" (I investigate, I am CSIC) talking about the future perspectives that her research offers.   Take a look at her video.
	December 2021 Our colleague Ángela Fernández was compiting in the III Edition of "Yo investigo. Yo soy CSIC" (I investigate, I am CSIC) talking about the future perspectives that her research offers.   Take a look at her video.
	October 2021 The PhD student Isabel Cea Rama, as one of the coauthors of the work ACS Nano (2020) 14, 17652–17664 ) has been awarded with the Xavier Solans Prize 2021, granted by the GE3C group.
	October 2021 Laura Galvez Larrosa, a new MRes (TFM) student has joined us under the supervision of Dr. Inmaculada Pérez Dorado
	July 2021 Dr. Carol Siseth Martinez Caballero returns to Mexico after a long postdoctoral stay with us. There she will take charge of a research group in structural biology. We will miss her.
	June 2021 Sara Pérez has joined us to work under the supervision of Dr. M.J. Sánchez Barrena as a “Garantía Juvenil” research assistant
	April 2021 Alejandra Alba Pérez, a new MSc student has joined us under the supervision of Dr. Juan A. Hermoso Domínguez
	April 2021 Fernando Ceballo-Züñiga Ulla, a new PhD student joined us under the supervision of Dr. Inmaculada Pérez Dorado
	April 2021 Alice Grieco, a new PhD student joined us under the supervision of Dr. Jose M. Martín García
	February 2021 Xiaoqing Zhang and Miriam Fernandez-Giro, two new visiting students that joined us under the supervision of Dr A. Albert.
	February 2021 Julia Martínez and Luca Lizzi, two new visiting students that will join us  under the supervision of Dr MJ Sánchez-Barrena to work on new NCS-1 regulators.
	January 2021 The main entrance to the Institute one week after the big snowfall of 2021 (Click on the image to get a larger copy)
	January 2021 Our colleague Dr J. Manuel Martín García, together  with a researcher of the EMBL (France) publish a special issue on Macromolecular Serial Crystallography, which gathers the latest developments in the field of serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) at XFEL facilities.
	December 2020 To celebrate Christmas we met with gifts to those who guessed our name from old photos (click on the image to get a larger copy)
	December 2019 Some of us during Christmas celebration (click on the image to get a larger copy)
	November 2019 Dr Mayte Batuecas Mordillo got her PhD title from the Universidad Complutense (Madrid)
	October 2019 Dr Alejandra A. Carriles Linares obtained her PhD title at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and leave our Department to work as a postdoc in Milan (Italy)
	July 2017 The Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), in collaboration with BRUKER Española S.A.,  has awarded Dr Antonio Chaves-Sanjuán with the “José Tormo” Prize for his work published in PNAS in 2017 and performed at the Dept. of Crystallography and Structural Biology, Institute “Rocasolano”, under the supervision of  Dr MJ Sánchez-Barrena. This prize gives recognition to the best piece of work performed by a young researcher in a Spanish laboratory, and published during 2016-2017 in any of the areas related to Structural Biology. Dr Chaves-Sanjuán will give a conference entitled Las fenotiazinas regulan la función sináptica interfiriendo en la formación del complejo NCS-1/Ric8a: Un nuevo enfoque para el síndrome X frágil at the XL Congress of the SEBBM, that will be held in Barcelona (23rd-26th October 2017).
	July 2017 Our colleague, Dr MJ Sánchez-Barrena, a young researcher at Institute “Rocasolano”, has been awarded with a very competitive “Leonardo” fellowship from the BBVA Foundation. She will be able to continue her research on synapse alterations (contact among neurons) that are present, among others, in pathologies such as Alzheimer´s, dementia or Huntington disease. Her research is aimed to design molecules that are able to restore these contacts, avoiding memory loss and improving cognitive ability in earlier stages of the disease. ABC press release
	June 2017 Drs. Juan A. Hermoso and A. Albert organized a workshop entitled "Prespectives of Biocrystallography on Free Electron Lasers" with the following speakers: Mark L. Pusey (Univ. of Alabama), José M. García (Arizona State Univ.) and Petra Fromme (Arizona State Univ.).
	May 2017 The Grupo Especializado de Cristalografía y Crecimiento Cristalino (GE3C) awarded the 2017 'Xavier Solans’ Prize to Dr. Teresa Domínguez-Gil Velasco (a former PhD student by Dr. Juan A. Hermoso Domíguez) for her excellent article Activation by Allostery in Cell-Wall Remodeling by a Modular Membrane-Bound Lytic Transglycosylase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, published in Structure (2016) 24, 1729-1741. This award recognizes the work of young researchers who perform their research in Spain in the field of crystallography and crystal growth.
	March 2017 We congratulate our colleague Dr. MJ Sanchez-Barrena, who has been interviewed by the HOY magazine, reporting on both her success with the recently published article in the PNAS journal and her dual status, as a scientist and mother of two daughters.
	February 2017 Dr. Maria Moreno being congratulated by her PhD director, Dr Armando Albert.
	January 2017. Retirement lecture by Prof. Martin Martinez-Ripoll: 40 years of Crystallography at the Rocasolano Institute
	July 2015 The Grupo Especializado de Cristalografía y Crecimiento Cristalino (GE3C) and PANalytical have awarded the first prize for poster presentation to Maria Moreno Alvero for her work: On the chemical control of the plant response to abiotic stress, supervised by Dr. A. Albert. The poster was presented at the XXXV Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Quimica (A Coruña, Spain).
CBE members awarded by the Spanish Society of Biophysics (SBE)	June 2015 The Executive Council of SBE has awarded the "2015 Manuel Rico-Bruker" Prize to Dr. Juan A. Hermoso, for his extensive CV, especially in recent years, and his important contributions in the field of Structural Biology. Juan A. Hermoso is a Research Professor of this Department. He is author of more than 144 publications in international journals, and co-author of 5 books. His main research field is related to unravel the mechanisms of virulence and pathogenesis and the means to circumvent them, using structural biology. His work focuses on proteins of the bacterial surface related to disease via key functions like host-pathogen interactions, division, antibiotics resistance or the remodeling of the peptidoglycan framework.
	June 2015 The SBE-33 Prize has been awarded to Dr. Cecilia Artola (a former PhD student by Prof. Juan A. Hermoso), for her excellent work on the recycling of the bacterial cell wall and its implications for antibiotic resistance.
	April 2015 The Grupo Especializado de Cristalografía y Crecimiento Cristalino (GE3C) has awarded the 2015 'Xavier Solans’ Prize to Dr. Antonio Chaves-Sanjuán (a former PhD student by Dr. Armando Albert and Dr. María José Sánchez-Barrena), for his excellent work on the abiotic stress resistance and ion homeostasis control in plants. This award recognizes the work of young researchers who perform their research in Spain in the field of crystallography and crystal growth.
	September 2014 Crystallography and Mathematics, a meeting dedicated to young students in the context of the International Year of Crystallography 2014 (IYCr2014).
	May 2014 The President of the International Union of Crystallography, Prof. Gautman Desiraju, visited our Department to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography 2014 (IYCr2014) and gave a seminar entitled: Crystal Engineering. From Molecule to Crystal.
	May 2014 Two highly motivated students from a high school have visited our Department in the context of a program of the Comunidad de Madrid that links School and Enterprises. Both students have shown interest on research work and, especially, on crystallography. They have purified and crystalized a recombinant protein, they have also taken some diffraction data, and now they are aware of the importance of protein structure.