December 2024
- Merry Christmas from MHA Lab! Wishing you joy, health, and success. Thank you for being part of our journey- let’s make 2025 amazing together!
- We are thrilled to celebrate our colleague Sabina Cisa on earning her Doctorate! Congratulations Sabina on this outstanding achievement.
November 2024
- Our group is among those selected for funding in this edition of 2023 Marató TV3. Thanks to the Marató for this wonderful opportunity!!!
- Finally, the day arrived! Our PI got a permanent position at the University of Barcelona. So grateful to all the people who participate in this long journey. Time to celebrate!
October 2024
- Great 10th Annual MetNet international meeting. So proud of our students presenting in poster modality and honored for the prize to Damian Antelo Cea.




- Now was the turn of our postdoc Iliana Who was invited as a flash Talk at the Cell symposia-Mitochondria 2024, to present our results. Good job Iliana!!


- Do not miss our recent review on the effects of Estrogen on mitochondrial and peroxisomal activity related to metabolic diseases.

- So grateful for the opportunity to show our work at the 6th Annual meeting of “In motu salus”. A conference completely dedicated to the effects of exercise on metabolism. Great Science and collaborations are ongoing!


September 2024
- Proud of my students Sabina Cisa and Ayda Roudi for presenting their work as poster modality in this amazing meeting “Autophagy across Scales EMBO” in Sorrento Italy. Congratulations on well-done work!!!
We are proud of the excellent presentation of our PhD student Raúl Ventura at the Open European Peroxisome Meeting (OEPM) in Sant Feliu de Guixols where he presented his exciting data about the role of peroxisomes and metabolism!!
- Amazing conference! Thank HelmholtzDiabetes2024 organizers for inviting our PI to share our most exciting results and also for the opportunity to meet with such big experts in diabetes and metabolism around the world. And of course, very honored by the nomination. And huge congratulations to all the nominees!
July 2024
- Enjoying the summer UB party with good friends
- Great experience!!! Our PI presented the talk: “We are not equal. Physiology and metabolism depend on sex” for a group of women (Cornellà de Llobregat).
June 2024
- Thank you to the organizers, especially Isabel Fabregat for allowing us to present our collaborative work in this fantastic meeting!
- Thanks to the ESCI58 organizing committee that allows us to present our latest results at the 58TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING – BARCELONA. Our postdoc Iliana has presented her project in oral and poster format. Well done Iliana!!
May 2024
- It was a pleasure to have been selected to speak at the 1st CIBER Young Scientific Personnel Conference and present our research in collaboration with Rodrigo Troncoso and Juan Carlos Borquez.
March 2024
- Thanks to Radio Tecnológico for this interview in which I share part of my professional life.
February 2024
- Our Ph.D. student Raúl Ventura is doing a six-month internship in Canada at the laboratory of Dr. Peter Kim (The Hospital for Sick Children) to unveil the peroxisome impact in our research.

- Our PI has participated in the outreach activity “100tifiques” where she did a speech on the work she develops as a scientist to junior high school kids.


October 2023
• Our PI was invited to present our latest results at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) and in the congress of Bioenergetic and Biomembranes of the Mexican Society for Biochemistry in Atlixco, Puebla (Mexico). • Raúl Ventura presented our latest results at The Inter-organelle contacts biology meeting EMBO conference in Fiuggi.
September 2023
• We have attended the 45 th SEBBM congress in Zaragoza.
• We are thrilled to announced our last article in Bio-protocol journal. Improved methodology for the subfractionation of the endoplasmic reticulum.
• Welcome Damián and Laura, new Master students in the lab.
August 2023
Our group leader gives an interview in Mexico.
https://www.facebook.com/100063531221507/videos/612059727481066
July 2023
• We say goodbye to Marc, Albert, Nil and Maya. Good luck!!!
• Congratulations to Juan Carlos for obtaining his Ph.D.
• We have obtained our second National Project.
• Check our last article in Science.• Congratulations to our new generation of bachelors.
• Raúl Ventura obtained a competitive Ph.D. scholarship (FPI 2022). Well done!!
• Our group leader obtained a new research grant “Consolidación Investigadora 2022”.
April 2023
Or group leader gives an interview to Onda Cero about our most recent publication
related to type 2 diabetes.De cero al infinito 01/04/2023. Minute 40.
March 2023
• Researchers find a molecular mechanism involved in type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body does not produce enough insulin, or does not use it efficiently. It is caused by the combination of a genetic predisposition to obesity, sedentarism and an unhealthy diet, and it affects millions of people around the world. Now, researchers of the University of Barcelona (UB), the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and the Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases Networking Biomedical Centre (CIBERDEM), have identified a molecular mechanism involved in the development of this disease.
February 2023
• Check our new article on mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Redox Biology, 2023.
Decreased expression of mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases causes downregulation of OXPHOS subunits in type 2 diabetic muscle.
• Our new preprint is out!
Effects of Aerobic Exercise in Hepatic Lipid Droplet-Mitochondria interaction in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.31.526481v1
Nil Rojo and Damian Antelo joined the lab as undergraduate students from the University of Barcelona. Welcome!
January 2023
We welcome Albert Píquer and Marc Leiro to the lab. They will be working with us as part of their Master’s thesis.
December 2023
- A new preprint is out!
Decreased expression of mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases causes downregulation of mitochondrial OXPHOS subunits in type 2 diabetic skeletal muscle
Check the preprint here:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.30.22283970v1
- Raúl Ventura has initiated his PhD by winning a research initiation grant from the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB).
- We officially welcome our new Ph.D. students: Ayda Roudi and Raul Ventura!
November 2022
- Albert Piquer Ruiz obtained one of the Departmental Collaboration scholarships from the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training for the 2022/2023 academic year to carry out his master’s thesis.
- Our collaborator Dr. Rodrigo Troncoso from Chile University visited our lab.
October 2022
- Our group leader organized together with Dr. Susanna Bodoy and Dr. Tania Quesada the 8th MetNet International Annual Meeting.
https://scb.iec.cat/8th-metnet-international-annual-meeting-2022/
- Welcome to new undergrad student Maya Saidu from St George’s University, London, UK.
- Our group leader presented some of our latest results at the EMBO workshop “The endoplasmic reticulum: the master regulator of membrane trafficking” in Lucca, Italy.
September 2022
- Our group leader gave a talk at the ‘Division of Molecular Biology of the Instituto Potosino of Scientific and Technologic Research (IPICYT) of Mexico.
- Our PI has participated in the initiative of the University of Barcelona and Co-founded by the European Commission «Nit de la recerca» Cafés Científicos de la UB 2022
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4knEpNjvg0
- We welcome Susana, who will be doing her internship as technician for a year with us.
July 2022
- New publication from the group:
Book chapter “Endoplasmic reticulum: a hub in lipid homeostasis published in Intechopen.
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/82195
- We welcome Izan Cabrerizo, a summer student from Barcelona University.
- We say goodbye to Alysha. Good luck!!
June 2022
Our PI is giving a conference at the 2nd International Symposium on food, nutrition, physical fitness and health. University of Chile.
May 2022
Our lastest publication:
Review on phospholipid membrane transport and associated disease. Biomedicines 2022, 10(5), 1201; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10051201
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/10/5/1201
April 2022
Juan Carlos Bórquez is joining the lab as visiting Ph.D. student from Chile University.
February 2022
- The lab welcomes Inmaculada Martínez (Ph.D. student) and Dr. Iliana López-Soldado (postdoc) both funded by the Caixa Foundation.
- Welcome to new undergraduated students Marc Leiro, Albert Piquer, and Anna Casado from Biology Sciences, University of Barcelona.
October 2021
Welcome to new undergrad student Alysha Jiwa from St George, University of London who is going to stay one year with us.
July 2021
We have been founded by the exclusive grants from “La Caixa”!!
“La Caixa” Foundation Research call for Health Research 2021
https://fundacionlacaixa.org/es/convocatoria-caixaresearch-investigacion-salud-proyectos-2021
February 2021
Raúl Ventura, María Zapata joined the lab as undergraduate students.
December 2020
Our first students!! Inmaculada Martínez and Vicente Cambra joined the lab.
September 2020
Let the adventure begin!!