Sara de Mateo López Professional Address:  Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Casanova 143, 08036 Barcelona, Spain. Phone: +34 93 4021877. E-mail: sarademateo@ub.edu

Academic formation

Biology Degree. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.
PhD Student. Biopathology in Medicine Program. University of Barcelona, Spain, from September 2005.

Scientific Publications

de Mateo S, Gázquez C, Guimerà M, Balasch J, Meistrich ML, Ballescà JL, Oliva R. Protamine 2 precursors (Pre-P2), protamine 1 to protamine 2 ratio (P1/P2), and assisted reproduction outcome. Fertil Steril. 2008 Mar 1; [Epub ahead of print]

Martínez-Heredia J, de Mateo S, Vidal-Taboada JM, Ballescà JL, Oliva R. Identification of proteomic differences in asthenozoospermic sperm samples. Hum Reprod. 2008 Apr;23(4):783-91. Epub 2008 Feb 15.

de Mateo S, Martínez-Heredia J, Estanyol JM, Domíguez-Fandos D, Vidal-Taboada JM, Ballescà JL, Oliva R. Marked correlations in protein expression identified by proteomic analysis of human spermatozoa. Proteomics. 2007 Dec;7(23):4264-77.

Oliva R, Martínez-Heredia J, de Mateo S, Gázquez C, Oriola J, Estanyol JM, Guimerà M, Balasch J, Ballescà JL. Proteomics of human spermatozoa, protamine content and assisted reproduction outcome. Soc Reprod Fertil Suppl. 2007;65:527-30. Review.

Congress participations

- de Mateo S et al. (2006). Protamines levels, protamine 2 precursors in the sperm cells from infertile patients and assisted reproduction outcome. 14^th ETW - Bad Aibling (Germany). April 22^nd-26^th.

- Oliva R, Martínez-Heredia J, de Mateo S et al. (2006). Proteomics of human spermatozoa, protamine content and assisted reproduction outcome. 10th Int. Symposium Spermatology – Madrid (Spain), September 17^th-22^nd.

- de Mateo S et al. (2006). Protamine content and proteomics of the human spermatozoa. Advanced Workshop and BAS annual meeting 2006 - Leeds (England), November 15^th -18^th.

- de Mateo S et al. (2006). Protamine content and proteomics of the human spermatozoa. 3rd Workshop on Biomedical Genomics and proteomics - Barcelona (Spain), December 15^th.

- Oliva R, de Mateo S et al. (2007). Proteomic analysis of human spermatozoa from infertile patients and controls. 32nd Annual Conference American Society of Andrology – Tampa, Florida (USA), April 18^th-24^th.

- Oliva R, de Mateo S et al. (2007). Proteomic analysis of human sperm proteins reveals marked protein expression differences in independent samples from infertile patients. Florence-Utah International Symposium: Genetics of Male Infertility – Florence (Italy), September 14^th-16^th.

Research lines

-         Characterization of the proteomic content of spermatozoa from infertile patients and from controls.

-         Correlation between protamines and assisted reproduction outcome.

-         Study of infertile patients according to nuclear proteins.

Fellowships

2006-2009: Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for the formation of the research personnel from Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain).

2007: Fellowship for a short stay of research abroad from Catalonia from Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain) for 4 months short stay in 2008 in a foreign laboratory (The Netherlands).