Functional Lipid liquid-liquid immiscibility at immune interfacial barriers

Dr Bernardino de la Serna holds two Master Degrees, one in Chemistry and another in Biochemistry (from University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). He was awarded his PhD at the working in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology under the supervision of Prof. Perez-Gil. 

He carried out his postdoctoral training at the Center for BioMembrane Physics (MEMPHYS) at the University of Southern Denmark. In 2014 Jorge was awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Career Integration Fellowship and moved to the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). There he was based at the MRC-Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, in the group of Prof. Christian Eggeling. During this time he got interested in super resolution imaging and undertook additional training in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy at the lab of Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Stephan Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Germany). Thereafter, he moved to the Oxford-Harwell Campus to undertake a new role of a Staff Scientist at the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), working at the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In 2019 Jorge joined the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London (United Kingdom) as a Senior Lecturer. His academic career also includes additional research stays, e.g. fellowship at the Humboldt University in Berlin and stays at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigations (IVIC) in Caracas Venezuela, SENAI/CETIQT in Rio de Janeiro, Brazila and Umeå University in Sweden.

Jorge’s interests include research on molecular sensing and remodeling in the airways,  interactions between host cell and toxic pollutants, nanoparticles and pathogens, engineered nanoparticles as drug delivery systems, organ-on-a-chip models and advanced imaging techniques, incl. super-resolution (STED) fluorescence microscopy.