Miren Basaras
{{Short description|Spanish microbiologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Miren Basaras Ibarzabal
| image = Miren_Basaras._Mikrobiologoa.jpg
| birth_date = 1968
| birth_place = Derio (Spain)
| nationality = Spanish
| education = Universidad del País Vasco (PhD)
| occupation = Researcher, microbiologist, and university professor
| employer = Universidad del País Vasco
}}
Miren Basaras Ibarzabal (born in Derio, Spain, 1968) is a microbiologist and professor of the Universidad del País Vasco (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.{{Cite web |url=https://zientzia.eus/artikuluak/miren-basaras-ibarzabal-nik-nahiko-nukeena-da-guk-/ |title="Nik nahiko nukeena da guk izatea mikroorganismoen kontrola" |access-date=2020-09-24 |last=Ana |first=Galarraga Aiestaran |date=1 March 2019 |website=Zientzia.eus |language=eu}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.redaccionmedica.com/noticia/miren-basaras-esta-debe-ser-la-decada-de-las-vacunas-8750 |title=Miren Basaras: "Esta debe ser la década de las vacunas". |access-date=2020-09-24 |website=Redacción Médica |language=es}}{{Cite web |title=Miren Basaras |url=https://www.deia.eus/actualidad/sociedad/2020/09/24/proceso-eleccion-nuevo-rector-upvehu/1066886.html |access-date=2020-09-24 |website=www.deia.eus|date=24 September 2020 }}
In September 2020, she became the leader of the COVID-19 surveillance committee, the organization of the UPV/EHU in charge of the effects that the disease could cause on the university campus.{{Cite web |url=https://www.eitb.eus/es/noticias/sociedad/detalle/7511024/la-upvehu-nombra-microbiologa-miren-basaras-responsable-covid19-/ |title=La UPV/EHU nombra a la microbióloga Miren Basaras como responsable COVID-19 |access-date=2020-09-24 |last=Telebista |first=Euskal Irrati |date=24 September 2020 |website=www.eitb.eus |language=es}}
Biography
Basaras received her bachelor's degree in biology 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 and teaches in the medical program, as well as in the microbiology and health master's degree and microbiology doctorate programs.{{Cite thesis|url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=214544|title=Detección de RNA en la infección por VHC. Implicación en la terapéutica de las hepatitis crónicas|last=Ibarzabal|first=Miren Basaras|date=1995|publisher=Universidad del País Vasco = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |editor=Universidad del País Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea|access-date=2020-09-24|language=es}}{{cite thesis|title=Detección de RNA en la infección por VHC. Implicación en la terapéutica de las hepatitis crónicas| year=1995 | publisher=Universidad del País Vasco = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=214544| last1=Ibarzabal | first1=Miren Basaras }}
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 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Works
- Mikrobiologia medikoa (2004, EHU). Co-author: Adelaida Umaran.{{cite web|title=Mikrobiologia medikoa|url=https://web-argitalpena.adm.ehu.es/listaproductos.asp?IdProducts=UCH00046586&title=Mikrobiologia%20medikoa}}{{Cite book|title=Mikrobiologia medikoa|publisher=EHU, Argitalpen Zerbitzua|date=2004 |isbn=84-8373-658-6|oclc=433388126|last=Basaras|first=Miren}}
- Desafíos de la Microbiología. Libro homenaje al profesor Ramón Cisterna Cancér (2018, EHU). Co-author: Lucila Madariaga.{{Cite book|title=Desafíos de la microbiología: libro-homenaje al profesor Ramón Cisterna Cancér|publisher=Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea|date=2018 |isbn=978-84-9082-863-2|oclc=1042967908|last1=Basaras Ibarzabal|first1= Miren|last2=Madariaga Torres|first2=Lucila|last3=Cisterna Cancér|first3=Ramón}}
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Category:Spanish women scientists
Category:Spanish microbiologists
Category:Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country
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