Biography:
Alfredo Berzal-Herranz Graduated in Biology in 1986 at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Received his Ph.D in 1990, his work was supervised by Prof. Ramón Díaz-Orejas at the CIB-CSIC, Madrid. He spent three years as Postdoctoral fellow at Prof. John Burke, University of Vermont, USA. He joined the IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain in December 1993, where he established his own research group. His main research interest is the Biological activity of the RNA. He has published near 100 research articles and is editor In-Chief of Biopharmaceuticals section of Pharmaceuticals. He has been Director of the IPBLN since 2005 to 2014.
Title : Essential functions of RNA virus genome beyond the storage of protein-coding information