MEMBERS OF THE GROUP (Active in 2018)
Postdoctoral Researchers Hafid Laayouni, Sandra Acosta, Begoña Dobon
Predoctoral Researchers Jessica Nye, Sandra Walsh, Pablo Villegas
Research Technician Elisabeth Gabriela Aguileta
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018
Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier. Received in 2018.
Invited Inaugural talk at the I2SysBio (Institute for Integrative Systems Biology). Natural selection in functional pathways: an approach to evolutionary systems biology. Valencia, 12-February-2018
Invited Keynore Speaker at the Barcelona VPH (Virtual Physiological Human) Summer School 2018. Digging into the information of the diversity of the human genome: from the reconstruction of human origins to the adaptation to the environment. 22nd June 2018.
2018 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Jessica Nye, Hafid Laayouni, Martin Kuhlwilm, Mayukh Mondal, Tomas Marques-Bonet and Jaume Bertranpetit. Selection in the Introgressed Regions of the Chimpanzee Genome. Genome Biology and Evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution 2018 10: 1132-1138.
Mayukh Mondal, Ferran Casals, Partha P. Majumder, Jaume Bertranpetit. Further confirmation for unknown archaic ancestry in Andaman and South Asia. Reply to 'No evidence for unknown archaic ancestry in South Asia'. Nature Genetics 2018 50: 1637-1639.
Ludovica Montanucci, Hafid Laayouni, Begoña Dobón, Kevin L. Keys, Jaume Bertranpetit* and Juli Peretó. Influence of topology and functional class on the molecular evolution of human metabolic genes. PLoS One. 2018 Dec 14;13(12):e0208782.
2018 FUNDED PROJECTS
2017-2019 Project “Selección adaptativa en poblaciones humanes” (Adaptive Selection in Human Populations). BFU2016-77961-P (AEI/FEDER, UE) awarded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (MINECO, Spain) Amount granted: 266,200€. PI J. Bertranpetit.
2017-2019 Consolidate Research Group 2017 SGR 702. “Human Population Genetics”. Amount Granted: 37,800 € PI J. Bertranpetit.
2018 Maria de Maeztu. Project for the sequencing of the metagenome. Amount granted: 20,000€. PI J. Bertranpetit and R. Maldonado.