Jesus joined the Lenhard lab as a PhD student in October 2025. Jesus earned his BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Seville, including a placement in Hilary Ashe’s lab at the University of Manchester, working with Drosophila to characterise slow RNA polymerase II mutants. As his BSc thesis, Jesus joined the Alberto Elias-Villalobos lab at IBiS, studying the assembly of transcriptional complexes in S. pombe. Jesus went on to complete an MSc in Molecular Genetics at the University of Seville, while investigating the epigenetic regulation of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in Millan-Zambrano’s lab at CABIMER.

As part of the Lenhard lab, Jesus studies the architecture of promoters and transcription start sites (TSS) and its cell cycle stage-specific regulation.