Current members
Toni Gabaldón, Principal Investigator
ICREA Research professor, group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), and associate professor at the UPF. He leads the comparative genomics groups. His main research interests are in the fields of genomics and evolution with significant contributions to the understanding of how genes, pathways, biological organisms and communities evolve and perform their functions.
Olfat Khannous, Predoctoral researcher
Biotechnologist with expertise in Bioinformatics and passionate of scientific diffusion. Currenlty working in the development and implementation of computational tools for metagenomics in a diagnostic context. Highly interested in Genomics and Biomedical research in general.
Moisès Bernabeu, PREDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
I am interested in unravelling the events that occurred in the transition from the prokaryotic to eukaryotic cell. Using phylogenomic data sets we search for the distances between species groups which are interesting for these events. This work is complemented by the study of the distribution of these branches’ lengths.
Dániel Májer, Full-stack developer
Student of Bioinformatics and Web Application Development (HTC). Passionate about Data efficiency and Data analytics.
Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès, Postdoctoral researcher
I feel a strong curiosity towards the genomic divergence process that culminated into the extant biodiversity. I am particularly interested in reconstructing the evolutionary process by exploring the phylogenetic signal contained in the genomes of the extant organisms. There is still much to know about how genomes evolve, and how gene content change in parallel to lineage diversification
Álvaro Redondo del Río, Predoctoral researcher
Interested in the analysis of microbiomes, specialized in bioinformatics seeking to develop analysis and visualisation tools for ‘omic data
Sara Peregrina Cabredo, Predoctoral researcher
Bioinformatician with a background in biochemistry and molecular biology with a strong interest in metagenomic data analysis, matching learning and biomedical research. I am now analyzing and contrasting oral microbiome data from healthy people and patients in disease.
Mrinalini Parmar, PREDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
My research curiosity is in understanding how microbes that reside in harmony within humans interact with various internal and external stimuli that may cause changes and become virulent. These concepts may in turn be beneficial to human health once deciphered.
Vladislav Biriukov, Predoctoral Researcher
PhD student at the University of Barcelona with interests in genomics and its applications in biomedical research. My current research focuses on studying mutation events occurring in Candida species.
Gemma Montagut, Research Assistant / Lab Manager
I am a biochemist doctor with a passion for experimental methodologies and laboratory work.
I am interested in running the wet lab safely and efficiently, assessing laboratory requirements, coordinating tasks and supporting users to perform experiments to high standards.
Arnau Albert Sanchez, Web-developer
I’m a web developer that likes to code in Python, Js and PHP.
Passionate about making UI.
Mariana López Matas, Management Assistant
I am a biologist specialized in laboratory and project management.
My main aim is to facilitate the advancement of scientific projects from the management point of view.
I like to support researchers in everything they need by sharing my knowledge and promoting a good atmosphere in the group.