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Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/ College/ Unit Biomolecular Engineering

Title Research Associate

Affiliation Staff

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department

Staff Type Other Staff

Web Site

Primary Office Location Biomedical Sciences
Remote

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours None - Reach out via e-mail.

Mail Stop No Mailstop

Biography, Education and Training

Currently Research Associate at University of Connecticut, in Rachel O'Neill's lab working on genome assembly, comparative genomics and genome evolution.

I'm also a Research Associate at UCSC, where I continue to collaborate on genome assembly projects as part of the CCGP.

While I was at UCSC, I was involved in genome assembly of human and non-human primates and developing tools for gap closing and genome assembly QC based on Chicago,HiC and OmniC data and Worked on the genome assembly of a very wide taxonomy range as part of the California Conservation Genomics project (CCGP). As the genome assembler for CCGP, I was responsible for assembling genomes from ~150 species. 

During my Ph.D. I worked on HTS/NGS data simulations and their underlying genomic data to understand the impact of several NGS parameters in the phylogenetic inference pipeline.

Summary of Expertise

BSc. Software Engineering / Computer Science (2013)  University of Vigo, Spain

MSc. Adaptive and Intelligent Software Systems (2013) University of Vigo, Spain

Ph.D. Methodologies and applications in life sciences / Computational Biology / Bioinformatics (2018) University of Vigo, Spain

Research Interests

• Genomics
• Bioinformatics
• Genome assembly
• Simulation of high throughput sequencing

Teaching Interests

• Bioinformatics
• Genome assembly

Selected Publications

Check my google scholar.