Albert Jordan (co-organizer)

Since 2008 Albert Jordan is a CSIC (the Spanish Research Council) Scientist at the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), and Group Leader of the Chromatin Regulation of Human and Viral Gene Expression Laboratory. He graduated in Biology (1991) and did his PhD studies in Molecular Microbiology (1996) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and stayed there afterwards for three years as a Lecturer. There he identified and characterized a new class of ribonucleotide reductases. In the meantime he spent five consecutive summer periods in the laboratory of Peter Reichard at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He then moved to San Francisco to undertake his postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Eric Verdin at the Gladstone Institutes (1999-2001), where he became interested in the role of chromatin in HIV gene expression control and latency. In 2002 he got a Ramon y Cajal appointment to join the laboratory of Miguel Beato at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona where he became Staff Scientist afterwards. There he studied mechanisms of gene expression regulation by steroid hormone receptors. Finally, in 2008 he got a permanent CSIC position to start a new group at IBMB where he studies the functional specificity of human histone H1 variants applying genomics and proteomics techniques, as well as HIV latency mechanisms and reactivation. He is Director of the IBMB Molecular Genomics department, and member of the Directive Committee of the Catalan Society of Biology where he was funder the Chromatin and Epigenetics section.