Juan Antonio Gabaldón

Contact details:

Role

Lecturer

Qualifications

PhD in Mathematical Sciences

Biography

Toni Gabaldón leads the Comparative Genomics group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB). He previously worked at the CRG (Barcelona), CIPF (Valencia) and NCMLS (Nijmegen, Netherlands). His main research interests are in the fields of genomics and evolution, and he has made significant contributions to the understanding of how genes, pathways, biological organisms and communities evolve and perform their functions.

Subjects they teach

Subject

Programme

Typology

Comparative and Functional Genomics

Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics

Elective

Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics

Description

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