Antonio Martinez Brotons

ANTONIO MARTINEZ BROTONS


Address:
Ramón Vicente Serrano 6
03206 Elche, Spain

Phone:
(+24) 600049440

Email:
[email protected]

Linkedin: antoniombrotons

TECHNICAL SKILLS


2D design
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
3D design
  • Fusion360
Programming languages
  • Python
  • Matlab
  • R
  • C++

LANGUAGES


  • Spanish - Native
  • Catalan - Native
  • English - Proficient (C2)
  • German - Intermediate (B1)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Laboratory technician at Botond Roska group

Mar 2021 – Dec 2022
Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB)
  • Mouse stereotaxic surgeries, viral vector injections, retina/brain IHC, image acquisition and analysis

MSc thesis at Botond Roska group

Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI), Basel
  • Studying neural circuits in mouse visual system by injection of viral tracers, immunostaining and image acquisition of brain tissue, and development of a graphical interface for the analysis of microscope data
  • Thesis title: “Mapping of long-range extraretinal projections to the dLGN”

BSc thesis at Ikeuchi lab

Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • BSc thesis developing bioinformatic pipelines for analysis of ribosomal stalling events in RiboSeq datasets.
  • Work partially published in Umegaki, Y. et al. (J. Neurosci, 2018)
  • Thesis title: “Identification and Characterization of Ribosomal Pausing Loci Responsible for Neural Development”

Research internship at FactorStem S.L.

2015
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain

Research internship at Vicente Felipo Neurobiology Lab

2014
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain

EDUCATION

Higher National Diploma in Computing

2023 - Present
Escuela Superior de Arte y Tecnología, Valencia, Spain
  • CS degree focused on graphics programming and real time computing.

Neuromatch Academy - Deep Learning Course

2022
  • Summer school in machine learning and state-of-the-art modeling approaches in neuroscience

Neuromatch Academy - Computational Neuroscience 2021

2021
  • Summer school incomputational neuroscience, AI research, and cognitive neuroscience.

Biotechnology MSc - Systems Biotechnology Track

2017 - 2020
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • MSc thesis at Botond Roska laboratory (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel)
  • ETH Zürich team leader for the 2018 iGEM contest (1 award, 4 nominations)

Biotechnology BSc

2017 - 2020
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
  • Erasmus exchange at Wageningen University with focus on biomedicine
  • BSc thesis in bioinformatics at the Ikeuchi lab (The University of Tokyo)
  • Best academic record amongst 2013 graduates

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Best Student Award - UPV 2018
  • iGEMer's Prize - iGEMcompetition 2018
  • Fellowship for Postgraduate Studies in Europe - CaixaBank 2017
  • Santander Bank Crue-CEPYME scholarship 2014

PUBLICATIONS

  • Umegaki, Y., Brotons, A. M., Nakanishi, Y., Luo, Z., Zhang, H., Bonni, A., & Ikeuchi, Y. (2018). Palladin is a Neuron-Specific Translational Target of mTOR Signaling that Regulates Axon Morphogenesis. Journal of Neuroscience, 2370-17. (link)