Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution

PhD in Biology

Julio Rozas Liras has been Professor of Genetics at the Universitat de Barcelona since 2009. He also sits on the board of directors at the BiB (Bioinformatics Barcelona Association). After completing his Bachelor’s Degree in Biology (UB, 1985), he did a PhD in Biology (UB, 1990) under the supervision of Prof. M. Aguadé. He then worked with Prof. R. Lewontin at Harvard University as a Fulbright postdoc (1991–1992). He sat on the board of directors at the Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) between 2008 and 2015 and in 2010 was awarded the ICREA Academia Price.

Bachelor’s Degree in Genetics(UAB), MSc in Bioinformatics (UAB), PhD in Genetics (UAB)

Marta Coronado is a postdoc at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE, UPF-CSIC) as a member of the Evolutionary and Functional Genomics research group, where she investigates the role of mobile elements in the adaptation of D. melanogaster natural populations. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Genetics and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she currently teaches classes at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology.

Bachelor’s Degree in Biology (UB), PhD in Genetics (UB) 

Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia is a lecturer for the Serra Húnter programme and director of the research group in Computational and Evolutionary Genomics at the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics at the University of Barcelona (GME-UB). His lines of research focus on evolutionary genomics and bioinformatics applied to the study of genetic variation. He is also codirector of the Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics space at GME-UB. His teaching experience includes genetics and genomics and molecular evolution, with particular focus on their computational aspects. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on the molecular evolution of chemosensory gene families in arthropods, the annotation and analysis of various charismatic animal and plant genomes, and the demographic and adaptive history of natural populations of different species.

Bachelor’s Degree in Biology (UAB), PhD in Genetics (UAB)

Marta Puig has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and a PhD in Genetics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She is a member of the Comparative and Functional Genomics research group at the Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB) and associate lecturer at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at the UAB. Her research centres on variant structures in general and polymorphic inversions in particular. She has worked for over ten years on characterising and analysing these kinds of variants in humans.

PhD in Biology

Joan Garcia-Porta is an evolutionary biologist who is interested in understanding the ecological processes that produce and shape phenotypic and species diversity. He approaches his research from a wide perspective, drawing on phylogenetics, functional morphology, ecology, statistical modelling and genomics. He has worked in research centres in Spain and abroad, including Belgium, Australia and the United States. He is currently working in the Genetics Department at the Universitat de Barcelona.

Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry
Master’s Degree in Genetics and Genomic

Vadim Pisarenco is currently a Genetics PhD student in the Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics Group at the Universitat de Barcelona. The group centres its research on studying arachnid genomes in general and characterising spider genomes of the Dysdera genus in particular, in order to resolve different hypotheses related to how these organisms evolve.