Guillermo Abascal Palacios

Guillermo Abascal Palacios is both an Ikerbasque Research Fellow and a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Instituto Biofisika (UPV/EHU-CSIC), where he leads the Structural Biology of Genomic Macromolecular Complexes Group. His research focuses on studying protein complexes associated to the genome, utilizing a combination of cloning/expression techniques, chromatographic tools, and biophysical and structural biology methods. He is an expert in employing cryo-EM to determine the structure of protein-DNA/RNA macromolecular complexes. 

Guillermo earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry in 2007 and a Master of Science in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine in 2008 from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2013 at CIC-bioGUNE (Derio). Before joining IBF, he spent eight years as both a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Cancer Research (London), where his research focused on studying the molecular determinants of RNA Polymerase III enzyme and transcription factors. His research work has been published in prestigious international journals, including Nature, Nature Communications, and PNAS, among others. Recently, he has been awarded the Ikerbasque and Ramon y Cajal Fellowships