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Sara Veiga Rúa (Ordes, 1995) studied Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she was awarded with the Extraordinary Graduation Price in 2017. That same year she carried out the degree´s final project and a collaboration grant at the Microbiology and Parasitology Department under the direction of Carlos Rodríguez Osorio.

She has studied a Master in Biomedical Research at the University of Santiago de Compostela, carrying out the master´s final project between the Genomics Medicine Foundation and the Genetics Department, under the supervision of Laura Sánchez and Catarina Allegue. The same supervisors directed her doctoral thesis focused on the generation of new models to study autism-related genes using both in vitro (stem cells) and in vivo (zebrafish) models. Currently, she is working in Diego Robledo’s lab, studying the evolution and function of fish TRIM E3 ubiquitin ligases.