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I am Ignacio a Spanish PhD student. I did my degree in Biotechnology in Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, and during my degree I also stayed abroad for one year in Cork, Ireland. After that I did my masters in Plant Biotechnology in UPM again, delving deeper into plant-microorganism interactions. And all this has got me to Norway. I am currently doing my PhD at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås, Norway, and I am working on fungal plant cell wall-loosening mechanisms. I hope that Biocat can help me to learn a lot and to grow as a researcher.