Leyre Marin Arraiza

PhD Fellow

Leyre has a background in Biomedical Biotechnology and received their bachelors from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre. Leyre first joined the lab as a student assistant, and then continued to do their Master’s thesis, staying with us to do their PhD project, which focuses on extracellular contractile injection systems. She is working on the structural characterization by single-particle cryo-EM, and combining the structural information with functional assays and bioinformatic analysis.