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.
Ester Saus, Research Assistant
My research is based on implementing new high-throughput sequencing strategies, specially in the transcriptomics field, to characterize fungal pathogens species, elucidate the secondary structure of RNAs, and to study the evolution of lncRNAs across related species.
Ewa Ksiezopolska, Predoctoral Researcher
Interested in the evolution of antifungal resistance.
Hrant Hovhannisyan, Predoctoral Researcher
The main goal of my PhD project is to shed light on host-pathogen interactions between humans and different Candida species and investigate mechanisms of pathogenicity emergence in hybrid yeasts using methods of comparative transcriptomics.
Jesse Willis, Predoctoral Researcher
I am working on a few projects which primarily involve metagenomics, prediction of the secondary structure of long non-coding RNAs, and analyses of next generation sequencing data.
Marina Marcet-Houben, Research Engineer
I use phylogenomics and comparative genomics tools in order to study how different organisms have evolved. I am specially interested in fungal species and have worked on topics related to horizontal gene transfer, whole genome duplication and hybridization.
Uciel Chorostecki, Postdoctoral Researcher
Interested in evolution of lncRNAs. My research is focused in the study of lncRNAs structures from different species.
Miquel Àngel Schikora, PREDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Bioinformatician using genomics to tackle biomedical challenges, such as the emergence of drug resistance in microbes.
Olfat Khannous, BIOINFORMATICIAN
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.
Valentina del Olmo, Postdoctoral Researcher
Trained in genetics and the study of transcription regulatory networks in fungal pathogens. I am now interested in studying the genome of fungal hybrids through comparative genomics from an evolutionary perspective.
Diego Fuentes, Bioinformatician
I am a geneticist with a bioinformatic background (Python, Shell and R). I am interested into machine learning, big data analysis, database management, NGS pipelines and statistical analysis.
Anna Vlasova, Bioinformatician
Research bioinformatician, interested in data integration, high throughput analysis, and method development that facilitate understanding of biological data.
Guifré Torruella, Postdoctoral researcher
As an evolutionary protistologist, my goal is to improve our knowledge on the origin & early eukaryote evolution, from its last common ancestor to our current biodiversity. My research involves sampling and culturing protists, sequencing and analysing their transcriptomes and genomes to tackle phylogenetic and comparative genomics questions.
Giacomo Mutti, Master Student
Bioinformatics master student with background in biology. I’m mainly interested in evolutionary biology and I am keen on using different programming resources and statistics to unravel genome evolution and phylogenomics questions.
Ismael Collado Cala, Student
Student of Web Applications Development – BioInformatics (CFGS). Currently graduated in Multiplatform application development. Highly interested in Big Data and Data Analysis.
Maria Artigues, Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate student in Human Biology. Currently interested in pursuing a career in Bioinformatics.
Juan Carlos Núñez Rodríguez, Predoctoral Researcher
My interests are focused on studying which traits determine the most important phenotypic changes in Candida spp. Such as pathogenicity, adherence, stress response or studying the processes of acquiring resistance to antifungal drugs.
Ana Álvarez, Master Student
Biologist with expertise in Microbiology and Bioinformatics, currently working on the study of the human microbiome in health and disease. Highly interested in the use and development of methods to approach comparative genomics in microorganisms.
Andrés Garisoain Zafra, Student
Future scientist and bioinformatician. Passionate about science and technology with the purpose of doing a PhD.
Mercedes Castro, Undergraduate student
Undergraduate computer science student with strong interests in biology. My research involves prediction of secondary structures of long non-coding RNAs with the aim of studying evolution.
Ortansa Raluca Ghita, Undergraduate student
Student of Medical Engineering-Politehnica University Bucharest. I’m interested in Biomedical research, especially the influence of microbiome in different disease.
Ömer Ege Kara, Undergraduate student
I am Ömer Ege Kara, an undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering and Mathematics and I am interested in Applied Mathematics. In the Comparative Genomics group, I am working on the analysis of microbiome data using Machine Learning methods.
Madison Snyder, Undergraduate student
Swarthmore College Biology graduate interested in genetics and human health research. Currently interested in studying biomarkers for colorectal cancer
Matteo Schiavinato, Postdoctoral Researcher
I am a postdoctoral researcher with a strong interest for the evolution
of hybrid genomes. I am specifically interested in the crosstalk
between the two subgenomes of a hybrid, and in finding new ways to
analyse them.
Saptashwa Datta, Masters student
I am an experimental biologist by training who also wants to dabble a little in the
engineering and computational side of things. Currently my research over here is
focused on the oral microbiome, transcriptomics and comparative genomics
of fungi. I am interested in working in the intersection of biology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and computational biology.
Martina Cardinali, Bioinformatician
I am a Bioinformatician with a great interest in genomics, NGS data analysis, and biomedical research. My current research focuses on studying the human microbiome in health and disease in order to identify condition-specific patterns.
Past members
Cinta Pegueroles, Research Engineer
Irene Julca, Postdoctoral Researcher
Laia Carreté, Postdoctoral Researcher
Miguel Naranjo-Ortiz, Predoctoral Researcher
Pedro González
Rosa Fernández, Postdoctoral Researcher
Susana Iraola Guzmán, Research Assistant
Verónica Mixão, Predoctoral Researcher
Manu Molina, Research Engineer
Leszek Pryszcz, PhD student
Elizabeth Gabriela Aguileta Estrada, Postdoctoral Researcher
Damien De Vienne, Postdoctoral Researcher
Filipe Garrett Vieira, Postdoctoral Researcher
Jaime Huerta Cepas, Postdoctoral Researcher
Antonios Alexandros Pittis, Postdoctoral Researcher
Ernst Thuer, Predoctoral Researcher
Salvador Jesus Capella Gutierrez, Postdoctoral Researcher
Luis Adolfo Bejarano Ardura, Research Assistant
Maxime Borry, Research Assistant
Javier Díez Pérez, Research Assistant
Diego Javier Kormes, Research Assistant
José Luis Rodríguez Alés, Research Assistant
Fran Supek, Postdoctoral Researcher
Elena Cabello Yeves, Master Student
Geovanny Risco, Undergraduate Student
Joel Moro, Master Student
Jerónimo Parra Parra, Master Student
Past visitors
Matteo Schiavinato
Enric Méndez Rabella, Student
Marta Álvarez Presas, UB
Marcello Benevelli
