Biography:
Cecilia Montanez Ph.D. Born in México (1955). B. Sc. in Bacteriology, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas (ENCB IPN), México (1997), Ph.D. in Microbiology; ENCB IPN, México (1982). Postdoctoral fellow; MRC, Cambridge, U.K. (1982). Full professor at the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology (DGMB), Cinvestav IPN, Mexico (1982-to date). Head of the DGMB (1989-1993 and 2005-2009). Author of 55 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Director of 29 Ph.D. thesis and 43 M. Sc. thesis. Fellow (Level III), National System of Researchers, Mexico (2005-present), member since 1984. Research topics: Expression and function of short dystrophins in cellular models, neural stem cells and CNS.
Title : Dystrophin Dp71 isoforms are differentially expressed in the mouse retina and brain structures