A Microbial World's View on Biological Evolution
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Purificación López-García, Ph.D.
Research Director, CNRS
Université Paris-Saclay
In 1992, Purificación López-García defended her thesis in biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid . She carried out her postdoctoral research at the University of Paris-Sud , the Pierre and Marie Curie University and the Miguel Hernández University . She joined the CNRS in 2002. She has been a research director at the CNRS since 2007 in the ecology, systematics and evolution unit. She is interested in the diversity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms in various ecosystems and their evolution since the origin of life on Earth . She is part of the European SINGEK (Single cell genomics) project .
The DEEM team, initially co-founded by Puri Lopez-Garcia and David Moreira, is one of the seven research components in the Ecology, Systematics and Evolution unit (UMR 8079, CNRS – Université Paris-Saclay – AgroParisTech) now at the IDEEV site (Gif-sur-Yvette, France).
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