Maria Dominguez

Universidad Miguel Hernández (Spain)

Maria Dominguez is Full Professor from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Head of the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante.
Maria Dominguez's lab studies the mechanisms behind high-order regulation of growth, such as the perfection of bilateral symmetry, and cancer in Drosophila. Her lab is particularly interested in genes that confer such precision in size and robustness against genetic or environmental disturbances. Using the fly as a model system, the lab also studies how mutations in defined genes instigate cancer in the presence of another mutation or environmental stress.