OBESIDOMICS GROUP
The Obesidomic Group is part of the Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) as an emerging group of the Endocrinology Area focused on the study of new adipocines and myocines responsible for the regulation of the body's energy homeostasis.
Leader of Obesidomics Group
Maria Pardo Pérez PhD
SNS Miguel Servet Researcher
Tamara Camino Martínez
Predoctoral researcher
María Pardo: I did my doctoral thesis at the Department of Physiology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) on the Molecular Mechanisms involved in the development of human malignant uveal melanoma. I moved to the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University (Oxford Glycoproteomics Lab) in 2003, where I specialised in proteomic techniques applied to clinical research as a Research Associate. In 2006 I returned to Santiago de Compostela to form the Obesidomic Group with a postdoctoral contract of the Isidro Parga Pondal Programme (USC/Xunta de Galicia). Since 2009, I am a researcher at the Miguel Servet National Health System (Instituto de Salud Carlos III/Servizo Galego de Saúde) at the University Clinic Hospital of Santiago, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS).
Tamara Camino Martínez, a graduate in Biology, joined our group in September 2017 to write her doctoral thesis on Study of the role of extracellular vesicles released by adipose tissue in obesity.
Nerea Lago Baameiro
Predoctoral researcher
Nerea Lago Baameiro, a graduate in Biology, joined our group in September 2019 to do her doctoral thesis on Study on the application to the clinic of a panel of circulating biomarkers present in extracellular vesicles released by the adipose tissue in obesity.
Collaborating clinical researchers:
Aurelio Martis Sueiro - Endocrinologist
Iván Baamonde - Bariatric Surgeon
Iván Couto - Plastic surgeon
Beatriz Brea - Plastic Surgeon
Javier Baltar - Surgeon MD, PhD
They actively participate in the development of our projects and are vital for the clinical translation of our results.
Former members:
Arturo Roca-Rivada PhD
Arturo Roca-Rivada carried out his doctoral thesis at the Obesidomics Group where he established the basis for the identification by proteomics of new adipokines and myocines involved in obesity. His work allowed the establishment of proteomic protocols for the study of secretions in both adipose and muscular tissue from animal models under different physiological and pathological situations. This experimental approach made it possible to establish reference two-dimensional secretion maps of both tissues, and to identify the proteins FetuinA/aα2HSG and Musclin/osteocrin as new signals secreted by adipose tissue. During the last years, he has worked on the identification of NCDF5/irisin in the adipose tissue. In November 2014 she left our group to do a postdoctoral stay at the Institut Cochin, Paris, France.
Diego Pérez-Sotelo
Diego López Sotelo, a graduate in Chemistry, joined our group in January 2013 with a pre-doctoral contract from IDIS to carry out his doctoral thesis on the Study of the secretion of the new FNDC5/irisin signal by adipose tissue and its involvement in obesity.