Núria Busquets

She graduated in Biological Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2001. PhD in molecular biology 2005. She is currently responsible of the research line Arbovirus and arthropod vectors (IRTA- CReSA). She is member of different committees for arbovirus surveillance coordinated by the Department of Health and the Department of Agriculture (DARP) of the Generalitat of Catalonia. Her field of research are exotic viruses, mainly viruses transmitted by mosquitoes in order to expand the knowledge of the host-virus-vector interactions and epidemiology. She has participated as principal investigator or collaborator in 13 research national or international projects. She has published more than 40 articles in scientific journals and participated in over 80 scientific and technical meetings also nationally and internationally.