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I am an ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with dual affiliation with the CRG, Barcelona, Spain. My lab is interested in understanding the roles that transcriptomic diversification, especially through alternative splicing and gene duplication, plays on vertebrate development and evolution. My research is centered on two major questions: How does a single genome sequence encode the information to build the enormous complexity of cell types and structures of an adult organism? How are changes in this sequence translated into morphological novelties during evolution? In my lab, we approach these topics focusing on cell and tissue type specific transcriptomes. We not only study transcriptional regulation, but also other mechanisms that expand transcriptomic diversity, such as alternative splicing and gene duplication, combining computational and experimental approaches using in vitro and in vivo systems (zebrafish, mouse and fruitfly).
I am a Senior Scientist at the Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology in Seville, Spain. My research is focused on the transcriptional regulation and its relationship with embryonic development, evolution and disease. Currently, I am starting a new research line focused on the study of aging from a genetic and epigenomic point of view, using the turquoise killing fish as a model.
I am a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, specializing in stem cell research and regeneration in invertebrates, primarily focusing on the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. My team has developed innovative methods like ACME for dissociation and combinatorial single-cell transcriptomics, enhancing our understanding of planarian stem cell differentiation. We've also explored stem cells in the regenerating annelid Pristina leidyi and are analysing atlases of various other regenerating organisms. Our future focus is decoding the transcriptional and epigenetic code of invertebrate pluripotent stem cells and their differentiation, contributing to the evolution of animal stem cells.
I am a JdC-I postdoctoral researcher at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain). I am broadly interested in the diversity and evolution of marine invertebrates and the processes that originate novel convergent traits such as venom or bioluminescence. I use different methods including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, molecular evolution, phylogenetics and morphology to answer questions such as whether the same genes underlie convergent traits in unrelated organisms, or how novel features originate and what is their impact in species diversification and lineage evolution. I am currently using venom systems in marine annelids and nemerteans as model traits to investigate these questions.
I am a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the Estación Biológica de Doñana, in Seville, Spain. I am an evolutionary biologist interested in the origin and propagation of phylogenetic lineages, phenotypes and evolutionary novelties. My work takes different approaches to study these themes at different scales: from macroevolutionary patterns using comparative phylogenentics, to genetic mechanisms using transcriptomics.
I am a Beatriz Galindo researcher at Universidad de Barcelona in Spain. My research is focused on understanding the genomic bases that control the appearance of new organs and structures in animals during their evolution with a particular focus on the evolution of winged insects, the most diverse and numerous group of animals on the planet.
I am a Ramón y Cajal Researcher working at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain. I am a molecular biologist interested in understanding how plants function in order to redesign them through synthetic biology. My research focuses on generating new tools to accelerate crop improvement and facilitate molecular farming. At the moment, I am actively involved in the development of a "plant bio-factory" that is geared towards the eco-friendly production of valuable chemical compounds. To achieve this, I am utilizing gene editing techniques along with metabolomic and transcriptomic approaches in order to establish this specialized "plant bio-factory."
I am a Ramon y Cajal researcher at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid (Spain). I'm interested in the evolutionary patterns of marine invertebrates, using a genomic perspective on several biological processes like reproduction, gene flow, phylogeny, venom production, and gene transcription of sponges, polychaetes, and nemerteans. In my lab we use different techniques and approaches, such as comparative genomics and transcriptomics, single-cell sequencing, RADseq, metabarcoding, immunocytochemistry or electron microscopy (SEM/TEM), among others.
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