Ismael Castanon

Ambitious, easy-going and positive. Between my strengths are the teamwork, emphaty and pragmatism.

I started getting experience at physicochemical analysis at a young age when I developed my first external training, since then, I have worked at several laboratories joining lot of projects as the SWI at the IBFG (Salamanca) under the supervision of the Prof. Margarita María Díaz, where I got my first teaching experience. Or my own project that finally became my bachelor thesis at Environmental Management Laboratories (LGA) where I developed further trainings later. This last one was totally proposed and planned by me becoming the first study ever that found substances as scopolamine or fentanyl in sediments of Spanish rivers. Moreover, I performed a quantitative analysis of antibiotics finding dangerous concentrations of sulfamethoxazole next to intensive livestock farms getting one of the top 3 marks of my entire promotion.

Recently, I was carrying out my Master Thesis Research at the Molecular Medicine laboratory of Prof. Peter Garred (Rigshospitalet) where I am developing a high-throughput, cost-efficient T-cell activation assay. During my MsC research, I have been awarded with the Erasmus traineeship + grant, from the European Union, scholarship that I previously enjoyed in the first academic semester of the year 2021-2022 when I developed my first student internship in Riga. During my research, I am trying to develop a method that will let my future colleges to monitor the T-cell response against SARS-CoV-2 to deeply understand the roll of this part of the immune system in the recovery ant protection. 

I hold a Bachelor’s in Biology, and I performed a Master’s in Microbiology & Health.