Guifré Torruella i Cortés
Qualifications
PhD in Biology (UB)
Biography
As an evolutionary protistologist, I worked as PhD at the Multicellgenome Lab, as Postdoc at the Diversity, ecology & evolution of microbes team, and at the Comparative Genomics group. 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.
Subjects they teach
Comparative and Functional Genomics
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
Elective
Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
This course covers concepts of comparative and functional genomics. Gene and genome duplication. Genomes and chromosome reordering. Synteny. Origin of genes. Estimation of gene loss and gain rates. Inference of natural selection in coding and noncoding sequences. Conserved sequences. Codon bias. Functional convergence. Molecular coevolution. Noncoding RNA analysis. Comparative genomics and systems biology. Functional annotation. ENCODE project. Gene expression.
Code:
52217
Créditos:
5 ECTS
Language:
English
Type of subject: Elective