Cinta Pegueroles
Role
Lecturer
Qualifications
PhD in Genetics (UB)
Biography
Maria Cinta Pegueroles has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology (2006) and a PhD in Genetics (2010) from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Fundació Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques (FIMIM), the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB), the Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and as a research engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is currently an associate lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona and a course instructor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
She is a biologist specialising in genetics and bioinformatics. Her main research interests are population genomics, evolution and adaptation. Her overall goal is to understand how genomes evolve using large-scale data; in particular, she is interested in understanding the genetic basis of adaptation and deciphering the functionality of long non-coding genes, as well as their role in genome evolution and adaptation. To do so, she uses both an evolutionary perspective that provides information of ancient events and a population perspective that provides information about more recent events.
Subjects they teach
Cell Biology
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
Core
Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
The course covers the organization and function of the cell, the integration of these operations in the physiology of an organism and introduces students in Cell Biology and in the physiological phenomena to understand the interior of the cell and its organization.
Subject of the 2020-2021 teaching plan.
Computational Genomics
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
Required
Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
In computational genomics, computational analysis is used to understand the biology of the genome sequences under study (DNA, RNA, microarray data, etc.). With an eminently genomic focus, the idea is to apply computational methods to understand the structure and function of sequences, with particular emphasis of the process of annotating functional elements at genomic level.
Code:
53129
Créditos:
5 ECTS
Language:
English
Type of subject: Required
Molecular Biology
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
Core
Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
This course covers the main aspects of cell structure and function in eukaryotes and prokaryotes cells. The course also explores the molecular mechanisms of replications, transcription and translation, and its regulation and control.
Subject of the 2020-2021 teaching plan.
Code:
51208
Créditos:
6 ECTS
Language:
English
Type of subject: Core