Miren Basaras Ibarzabal (born in

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, Spain,

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) is a

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and professor of the

Universidad del País Vasco The University of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, ''EHU''; es, Universidad del País Vasco, ''UPV''; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially ...

(University of the Basque Country, or UPV/EHU) in the department of immunology, microbiology, and parasitology of the Faculty of Medicine and Nursing in Vizcaya. In September 2020, she became the leader of the

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surveillance committee, the organization of the UPV/EHU in charge of the effects that the disease could cause on the university campus.

Biography

Basaras received her bachelor's degree in

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

at the Universidad del País Vasco and her doctorate in 1995 with the thesis ''Detección de RNA en la infección por VHC. Implicación en la terapéutica de las hepatitis crónicas (Detection of RNA in HCV infections. Implication for the treatment of chronic hepatitis)''. She is an associate professor of

microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...

and teaches in the medical program, as well as in the microbiology and health master's degree and microbiology doctorate programs. She also leads the COVID-19 surveillance committee, the organization of the UPV/EHU in charge of the coordination, assessment, information, monitoring, and control of the daily effects on the university from the

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pandemic.

Works

* ''Mikrobiologia medikoa'' (2004, EHU). Egilekidea: Adelaida Umaran. * ''Desafíos de la Microbiología. Libro homenaje al profesor Ramón Cisterna Cancér'' (2018, EHU). Egilekidea: Lucila Madariaga.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Basaras, Miren Women biologists Spanish women scientists Spanish microbiologists Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country University of the Basque Country alumni 1968 births Living people People from Greater Bilbao