Natalia Garcia Aranda

Technical staff

IQAC

Department

Surfactants and Nanobiotechnology

Research group

Nanomedicine for Therapeutic Applications (NM4T)

Contact

Email

natalia.garcia@iqac.csic.es

Profiles

ORCID

0000-0003-3230-9881

Natalia Garcia Aranda

Technical staff

Laboratory technician (Advanced Vocational Training, CFGS) with extensive experience in research groups such as Lipid Metabolism and Lipases (Universitat de Barcelona) and Functional Validation and Preclinical Research (CIBBIM-Nanomedicine at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR)). She is currently part of the IQAC-CSIC Nanomedicine for Therapeutic Applications group.

In these groups, she has carried out the following tasks:

Molecular biology: bacterial growth; gene cloning and sequencing; extraction, quantification and analysis of DNA, RNA and proteins; qRT-PCR, Western blot and ELISA; neutralising antibody assays; tissue processing and lipid extraction; TLC and immuno-TLC; enzymatic activities (alpha-galactosidase).

Cell biology: culture of tumour cell lines and primary cultures (endothelial cells from Fabry mice); retroviral and lentiviral transfections and infections; cell viability and proliferation assays, cell cycle analysis and apoptosis; adhesion, migration and suspension viability techniques; luciferase reporter assays; flow cytometry; ROS and ATP assays; immunotoxicity, platelet aggregation and coagulation.