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Head of the Cell Bank: Dra. Trinidad León Quinto
Curriculum Vitae. Brief synopsis. . M.S. Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain . PhD Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, Paris, France . Several postdoctoral research stays at the University of Nottingham (UK). . Head of the Area of Zoology, Professor of Zoology and Animal Biotechnology, Researcher of the Institute of Bioengineering, University Miguel Hernández, Elche (Spain). Head of the first Cell Bank for the Endangered Wildlife located in Spain (Created between 2002-2003), supported by the Ministry of Environment. She actively contributed for the National Law to contemplate and promote the creation of this kind of reserves to favor the conservation of the threatened species. Co-Head (along with the Environmental Council of the Regional Government of Andalusia) of the Biological and Genetic Resource Bank for the Endangered wildlife of Andalusia, the first of its kind created in Spain at the regional level. Her research is divided into two parts. The first one was focused on biomedical research, starting at the University of Paris VII Denis Diderot (Paris, France) and being later continued at the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH, Elche, Spain), with several postdoctoral research stays at the University of Nottingham (UK). At the UMH, she formed part of the first team working in Spain with stem cells. Afterwards, he applied all her biomedical knowledge to the conservation of the endangered wildlife, being the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) one of the priority species. Since the creation and implementation of the Cell Bank and the Biological and Genetic Resource Bank for the endangered wildlife of Andalusia, her research has been mainly focused on developing and improving techniques of cryopreservation as well as reproductive biotechnologies, all of these applied to the conservation of the endangered wildlife. She has also participated in other biosanitary studies and genetic characterizations, always in a conservationist context.
Key words: Trinidad leon quinto, Iberian lynx, conservation, environment, Spanish biobank, biobank, cell bank, spanish conservation, cryobank, genome resource bank, genetic resource bank, Universidad Miguel hernandez, UMH