Genetics and Genomics

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.

BSc in Genetics (UAB)
MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences (UPF)
PhD candidate, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC)

After earning a BSc in Genetics and an MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences, Nerea Moreno is currently studying for a PhD in Biomedicine at UPF, focusing on the genetic diagnosis of immunodeficiencies from whole genome sequencing data.

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.