User:J DoubleS/Irene Miguel-Aliaga

Irene Miguel-Aliaga is a Spanish developmental biologist interested in metabolism, organ plasticity and continued development, using mainly Drosophila. She is a professor of genetics and physiology at Imperial College London and head of the Gut Signalling and Metabolism group at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS), where she is Chair of the Genes and Metabolism section. In 2019 Miguel-Aliaga was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2018 she was awarded a Suffrage Science award. In 2016 she was interviewed by Adam Rutherford on his BBC Radio 4 programme Inside Science about her research on sex differences in physiology.

Education
Miguel-Aliaga did her PhD in genetics at the University of Oxford with Kay Davies.

Research
Miguel-Aliaga is interested in organ plasticity. She did postdoctoral research with Stefan Thor at Harvard, USA and then Linkoping University, Sweden. Miguel-Aliaga was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to undertake further postdoctoral work with Alex Gould at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR). In 2008, she obtained an independent Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship to capitalize on the study of the enteric nervous system in Drosophila, at the University of Cambridge and then in London. She was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator Programme (YIP) in 2012 and to European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2017. Miguel-Aliaga has received an ERC Starting Grant and ERC Advanced Grant. In 2018 Miguel-Aliaga was awarded an ERC Advanced grant for her research on Sex differences in intestinal plasticity. She is a Programme Leader and Chair of the Genes and Metabolism Section at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Professor of Genetics and Physiology at Imperial College London.

Awards and honours

 * 2012 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator Programme
 * 2017 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) elected member
 * 2018 Suffrage Science Life Sciences Award
 * 2019 Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences