Sònia Casillas
  • Phone34-93-581 1233, 34-93-581 2011
  • Parc de Recerca, Mòdul B

    08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

1. Population genomics of life diversity
- Analyze and represent genome variation and signatures of selection in different species (PopLife project).
- Define parameters that measure the adaptive potential of a genome.

2. Human population genomics
- Test whether human adaptation events have occurred either steadily or in burst periods along our evolutionary history.
- Functionally characterize candidate regions and genetic variants under selection.

3. Population genomics and multiomics
- Disentangle the complex relationship between 3D chromosome folding, nucleotide variation, and adaptation.

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20042024

Research activity per year

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Miquel Ràmia

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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B. Negre

  • Centre for Genomic Regulation
  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)

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Natalia Petit

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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A. Ruiz

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
  • Sun Yat-sen University
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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Sergi Hervas

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)

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Marina Stamenkovic-Radak

  • University of Belgrade

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Yolanda Guillén

  • Municipal Institute for Medical Research Hospital del Mar
  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Marija Savic Veselinovic

  • University of Belgrade

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Mihailo Jelic

  • University of Belgrade

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Omar Rota-Stabelli

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Istituto Agrario San Michele all'Adige
  • Department of Mathematics of the University of Trento

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Aleksandra Patenkovic

  • University of Belgrade

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Dorcas J. Orengo

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Lab Bioestadist & Epidemiol, Serv Farmacol Clin, Inst Invest Biomed August Pi & Sunyer,Hosp Clin

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Eva Puerma

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Lab Bioestadist & Epidemiol, Serv Farmacol Clin, Inst Invest Biomed August Pi & Sunyer,Hosp Clin

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Fabian Staubach

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

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Casey M. Bergman

  • University of Manchester (UMAN)

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Banu Sebnem Onder

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Hacettepe University

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Joaquin C B Nunez

  • University of Seville (US)
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT)

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Esteve Sanz

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)

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John Parsch

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

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Martin Kapun

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • University of Lausanne (UNIL)
  • University of Fribourg
  • University of Zurich (UZH)
  • Medical University of Vienna

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Lino Ometto

  • University of Pavia (UNIPV)

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Bárbara Negre

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
  • University of Cambridge

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Maaria Kankare

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Jyväskylän Yliopisto (University of Jyväskylä)

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Miriam Merenciano

  • Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

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Marija Tanaskovic

  • University of Belgrade

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Jaume Bertranpetit

  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
  • Department of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Institute of Evolutionary Biology

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Ivo Gut

  • Barcelona Science Park
  • Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica (CNAG)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Centre for Genomic Regulation

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Mads Fristrup Schou

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Aarhus University
  • Lund University
  • Aarhus University Hospital (AUH)

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Marta Gut

  • Centre for Genomic Regulation
  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
  • Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica (CNAG)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Barcelona Science Park

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D Soto

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Paul A. Cobine

  • Auburn University

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Stephen W Schaeffer

  • Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)

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Thomas Liehr

  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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MARIOLA O. RAMIREZ

  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Andrew G. Clark

  • Cornell University

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Darius Widera

  • University of Reading

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Esther Betrán

  • The University of Texas at Arlington

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Aik Choon Tan

  • University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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Tomislav Cernava

  • Graz University of Technology

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Covadonga Vara González

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Nuria Rius

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Marta Melé

  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
  • Centre for Genomic Regulation

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Antonio Barbadilla

  • Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Iryna Kozeretska

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
  • Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

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Michael G. Ritchie

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • University of St. Andrews

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Lorena Pantano

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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O. Pourret

  • UniLaSalle

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Anna Williford

  • The University of Texas at Arlington

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Svitlana Serga

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
  • Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

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Felix Ehret

  • Harvard University

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Kelly A Dyer

  • University of Georgia

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Francesco Marinello

  • University of Padova

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Yun Wang

  • Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

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Cédric Feschotte

  • University of Utah

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M.A. Baltrons

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Clara Inserte

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Pablo Librado

  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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Thomas J S Merritt

  • Laurentian University

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Jordi Estellé

  • Barcelona Science Park
  • ComUE Université Paris-Saclay
  • Université Paris-Saclay

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Pieter De Jong

  • Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute

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Paul Schmidt

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)

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E. Herrero

  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
  • Institute of Space Sciences
  • Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia

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Roger Mulet

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Ruud P.M. Dings

  • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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Volker Loeschcke

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Aarhus University
  • Aarhus University Hospital (AUH)

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Ene Choo Tan

  • KK Women's And Children's Hospital

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Katarina Eric

  • University of Belgrade

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Valentí Moncunill

  • ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies

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I. Ribera

  • Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics

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Josefa Cabrero

  • University of Granada (UGR)

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Magali Suzanne

  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)

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Junpeng Zhang

  • Dali University

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Brooke A. Ammerman

  • University of Notre Dame

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Evan E. Eichler

  • University of Washington (UW)
  • Howard Hugues Medical Institute

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Gisela Mir

  • Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics
  • Peter Maccallum Cancer Centre

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Elena G. Pasyukova

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • RAS - Institute of Molecular Genetics

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Courtney Tern

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT)

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Guilherme B. Dias

  • Federal University of Minas Gerais

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Aurélie Kapusta

  • University of Utah

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Willy A. Flegel

  • U.S. National Institutes of Health (NHI)

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Michael Akam

  • University of Cambridge

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Alejandra Bodelón

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Thomas Flatt

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • University of Lausanne (UNIL)
  • University of Fribourg

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David Torrents

  • ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies

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M. Miquel

  • Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics

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Alejandra Delprat

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Carlos Oscar S. Sorzano

  • National Biotechnology Center (CNB-CSIC)

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Maria Teresa Bonet

  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
  • ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies

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Anna Ullastres

  • Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

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Ismael Mingarro

  • University of Valencia (UV)

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Gustavo C. S. Kuhn

  • Federal University of Minas Gerais

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Marc Dabad

  • Centre for Genomic Regulation
  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia

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Cong Cong Yin

  • Henry Ford Health

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Luca G. Campana

  • University of Padova

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Francesc Muyas

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Carlos M. Vicient

  • Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics

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Cristina P. Vieira

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • University of Porto

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Sonja Grath

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

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Daniel Velasco

  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)

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Alejandro Sanchez-Gracia

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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C. Delgado

  • University of Valencia (UV)

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Irene Hernando-Herraez

  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia

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Long Yang

  • Shandong Agricultural University (SDAU)

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Darren J. Obbard

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • University of Edinburgh

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Oliver Blanck

  • Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel (CAU)

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Yaoqi Zhou

  • Griffith University

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Konstantinos Voskarides

  • University of Cyprus

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Swapna V. Daulatabad

  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Purdue University

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Christopher McCrum

  • Maastricht University

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Brian P Lazzaro

  • MIT - Cornell University

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Emily L Behrman

  • Pennsylvania State University (PSU)

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Henrik Nilsson

  • University of Gothenburg

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Carl S. Goodyear

  • University of Glasgow

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Zuzanna Bukowy-Bieryllo

  • Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)

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Lars Ritscher

  • Leipzig University

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Peter Brown

  • Griffith University

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Jeronimo C. Ruiz

  • Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

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Mohamed A. El-Esawi

  • Tanta University

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Joseph Outten

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT)

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T Abello

  • Zoo de Barcelona

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R. Egea

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Douglas P. Gladue

  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

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Wenfeng Xia

  • University College London

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Marco Cascella

  • Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale

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J. Ruano

  • University of Granada (UGR)

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Alan O. Bergland

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • University of Virginia (UVA)

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Arcadi Navarro

  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
  • Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
  • ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
  • Institute for Research and Innovation Parc Taulí (I3PT)
  • Centre for Genomic Regulation
  • Institute of Evolutionary Biology
  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
  • Department of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

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Josefa Gonzalez

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
  • Institute of Evolutionary Biology

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Andy W.K. Yeung

  • The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

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Can Alkan

  • University of Washington (UW)
  • Bilkent University

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Michael Nefedov

  • Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute

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Patricia Gibert

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (UCBL)

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Eliza Argyridou

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

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Julio Rozas

  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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M. Valles

  • Serv Nephrol
  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia

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Mark J. van Raaij

  • National Biotechnology Center (CNB-CSIC)

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Elisa de la Calle-Mustienes

  • University Pablo de Olavide (UPO)

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Jessica Abbott

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Lund University

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Subhash Rajpurohit

  • Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
  • Ahmedabad University

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Fereydoun Hormozdiari

  • University of Washington (UW)

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Enol Fernández

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Gabriel M.F. Almeida

  • Jyväskylän Yliopisto (University of Jyväskylä)

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Leonardo G. De Lima

  • Federal University of Minas Gerais

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John E. Pool

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)

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Eran Tauber

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • University of Haifa

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Felix J. Hüttner

  • Heidelberg University

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Nicholas A. Kurniawan

  • Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Eindhoven University of Technology - TU/e)

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Michael S. Engel

  • University of Kansas

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Jose Luis Gomez-Skarmeta

  • University Pablo de Olavide (UPO)

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Martin S. Staege

  • Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

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Daniel K Fabian

  • University of Cambridge

External person

Thilo Muth

  • Robert Koch-Institute (RKI)

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Pablo Villegas-Mirón

  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)

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Ken Honjo

  • University of Tsukuba

External person

Brett Nixon

  • University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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Adrian Meule

  • University of Salzburg

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Cristina Vieira

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (UCBL)

External person

C. Fox

  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia

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Carlos Morcillo-Suarez

  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Institute of Evolutionary Biology
  • Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
  • Fundació IMIM-PRBB
  • IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital
  • National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB)

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Jordi Mas

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics

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Javier Javier Martinez

  • Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
  • University of Alcalá
  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia

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Hyemin Han

  • The University of Alabama (UA)

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Marta Pascual

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)

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Zhongheng Zhang

  • Zhejiang University

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Juan P. Camacho

  • University of Granada (UGR)

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Torsten Schöneberg

  • Leipzig University

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Johannes Engelken

  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Lain Guio

  • The European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
  • Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

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Arun R. Chandrasekaran

  • Confer Health Inc.

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David Lalaouna

  • University of Strasbourg (UNISTRA)

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Dmitri Petrov

  • Polytechnic University of Catalonia
  • ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies

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Belen Lorente-Galdos

  • Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia

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