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Rafael Oliva

Positions:
Presently (since 2001):
• Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, in charge of Coordinating and Teaching Medical Genetics.
• Consultor Geneticist at the Hospital Clínic, Barcelona.
Previous positions:
• Medical studies 1978-1984 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona.
• PhD Student 1984-1986 at the Molecular Genetics Laboratory
• Post-Doctoral Fellow 1986-1989 at the Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Calgary, Canada.
• Staff Scientist 1989-1990 at the Human Genome Center, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• Associate Professor 1990-2001 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona.
• Geneticist at the Hospital Clínic 1996-2001, Barcelona
Current main Projects and research interests:
• Sperm cell Genetics, Genomics and Proteomics.
• Molecular basis of male infertility and mutational and candidate gene studies.
• Epigenetics of the spermatozoa.
• Mechanisms operating in the nucleohistone to nucleoprotamine transition.
• Histone acetylation.
• Protamine function and evolution.
CURRICULUM VITAE - Rafael Oliva

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