CSIC Tenured Scientist at CRAG

PhD in Population Genetics at University of Barcelona (UB, Barcelona, Spain). 1998

I am deeply interested in understanding the causes of evolutionary processes, particularly the importance of the forces involved in adaptation to environmental changes and how they operate. I enjoy developing diverse approaches and methods to infer the evolutionary processes that have occurred in populations.  Simulation studies are my primary approach to understand the behaviour of the evolutionary forces under complex conditions.

I am recently focusing on the study of the evolution of polyploidy and mating system as a mechanism of adaptation to rapid environmental changes. In collaboration with Dr. M. Abdelaziz (University of Granada), I will be participating in an ambitious project aimed at understanding the evolution of the Erysimum incanum complex species across different geographic scales, using both wild and greenhouse studies, along with various -omic methodologies.

Diego has just started his thesis with the title “Análisis transcriptómico de la lactación y cartografiado fino de polimorfismos con efectos causales sobre fenotipos lecheros y de viabilidad en la raza Murciano-Granadina”.  

This thesis is part of a collaboration between three PI from CRAG (Marcel Amills, Alex Clop and Sebastian Ramos-Onsins). 

Diego will integrate selection fingerprint data in pigs and goats with multitissue transcriptomic data in order to identify genes under selection and that present tissue-specific expression patterns, so that it is possible to identify  which anatomical organs have been affected by the selective process associated with domestication. Diego is based in Barcelona.

PhD degree in Theoretical Physics.

Nowadays is a Career Development Fellow of the Pandemic Sciences Institute of the University of Oxford and a senior researcher at the Big Data Institute of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.

https://www.bdi.ox.ac.uk/Team/luca-ferretti

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7578-7301

email: luca.ferretti@bdi.ox.ac.uk

PhD degree  in Population Genetics.

Nowadays Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the University of Barcelona.

https://webgrec.ub.edu/webpages/000011/cas/sguirao.ub.edu.html

https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=Wc1XC7IAAAAJ&hl=en

e-mail: sguirao@ub.edu

Master thesis in Animal Science UAB 2011 "Caracterización genética de poblaciones de cerdos (Sus scrofa, Artiodactyla: Suidae) mediante SNPs del cromosoma X."

PhD degree in Animal Production and Genetics at 2014 "Ancestry and diversity of American village pigs"

Co-directed with Dr. Miguel Pérez-Enciso

Dr. Burgos-Paz has a permanent research position in the Center of Research in Tibaitatá, from AGROSAVIA, the Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria at Corpoica (Colombia).

https://webgrec.ub.edu/webpages/000011/cas/sguirao.ub.edu.html

https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=Wc1XC7IAAAAJ&hl=en

e-mail: wburgos@agrosavia.co

PhD degree in Genetics UAB at 2019 "Effect of domestication in the pig genome"

Co-directed with Dr. Miguel Pérez-Enciso

Nowadays Senior Bioinformatician at the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR). Barcelona.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordi-leno-colorado-28a02359/

e-mail: jordilc1987@gmail.com

PhD degree in Computer Science UAB at 2021 "Parallelizing Population Genetics Applications"

Co-directed with Dr. Porfidio Hernández

Nowadays working as a Data Engineer at Adevinta, a company specialist with market-leading positions in key European markets, located in the Netherlands.

https://adevinta.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmontemuino/

PhD degree in Genetics UAB at 2023 "Detecting Signals of Polygenic Variability in Domestication and in breeding"

Co-directed with Dr. Miguel Pérez-Enciso

Currently postdoc with a 3-years research contract in the IRTA (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology) in the team of Genetics and Animal Improvement at Torre Marimon, Barcelona.

https://www.irta.cat/en/grup/animal-breeding-genetics/

e-mail: ioanna.vourlaki@irta.cat

Development and Analysis of Software. 2014-2016

Supervision with Dr. Porfidio Hernández and Dr. Gonzalo Vera

HPC & Cloud Engineer at Cisco Meraki

https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiernavarrofdez/

Software Developer.  2016-2017

Supervised together with Dr. Gonzalo Vera  

Currently enginner at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC)

https://iiia.csic.es/~jjene/

e-mail: jjene@iiia.csic.es

Master Thesis at IAMZ 2009 "Variabilidad nucleotídica y estructura poblacional en cerdos criollos cubanos"

Supervised together with Dr. M. Pérez-Enciso  

Currently Senior Researcher at IRTA

https://www.irta.cat/en/personal/yuliaxis-ramayo-caldas/

e-mail: yuliaxis.ramayo@irta.cat

Master Thesis in Advanced Mathematics  UB 2014 "Biological Interactions between multiple genetic mutations"

Supervised together with Dr. Luca Ferretti  

Currently Manager en CIB Data Analytics - NTT DATA

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adria-madico-ferrer/

Master Thesis in Bioinformatics UAB 2015 "DIGUP: a method to detect incompatible genealogies among populations using unphased data"

Supervised together with Dr. Luca Ferretti   

Currently at Department of Plant Breeding, Population Genetics and Seed Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

https://evoplant.uni-hohenheim.de

e-mail: mireia.vidal -at-uni-hohenheim.de

Master Thesis in Bioinformatics UAB 2016 "Molecular relationship matrices vs. site frequency spectrum tests: Quantitative and population genetics metrics compared"

Supervised together with Dr. M. Pérez-Enciso 

Master Thesis in Bioinformatics UOC  2024 "The relative Site Frequency Spectrum (rSFS) of subsamples versus a population"

https://www.linkedin.com/in/minlong-chen-09062a193/

Master Thesis in Bioinformatics UOC  2024 "Study of adaptive phenotypic traits using the extended genotype homozygosity matrix"

Supervised together with Dr. Ioanna Vourlaki 

Currently PhD student in Molecular Biology at JAen University

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maría-cintas-galán-1a8210210/

Master Thesis in Bioinformatics UOC  2024 "Estimació de la proporció de substitucions adaptatives mitjançant estimadors theta"

Alba finished her Master Thesis in Januray 2025 (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) in population genetics in the topic titled "Estimación del tamaño efectivo poblacional:

desarrollo y evaluación de un algoritmo en R basado en Stairway Plot".  

Grade Thesis UPC  2024 "The effect of pervasive selection on the inference of demographic patterns of a population"

Grade in Engineering of Biological Systems

Supervised together with Dr. Laura Botigué