Post Doctoral Researcher. I’m interested in the old but not solved debate in determining the relative importance of genetic drift versus natural selection at molecular level. During my PhD at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona under the supervision of Dr. Antonio Barbadilla, I’ve been working in the decisive role that recombination has in determining regions of the genome where genetic drift is the main evolutionary force and regions where natural selection is overriding in determining allele frequencies. Now, at Gonzalez lab I will have the opportunity to deepen in the knowledge of how adaptive processes occur from a more functional perspective.
Publications
2018
Kapun, M; Aduriz, MG Barron; Staubach, F; Vieira, J; Obbard, D; Goubert, C; Stabelli, Rota O; Kankare, M; Haudry, A; Wiberg, ARW; Waidele, L; Kozeretska, I; Pasyukova, E; Loeschcke, V; Pascual, M; Vieira, CP; Serga, S; Montchamp-Moreau, C; Abbott, J; Gibert, P; Porcelli, D; Posnien, N; Grath, S; Sucena, E; Bergland, A; Guerreiro, MP Garcia; Onder, BS; Argyridou, E; Guio, L; Schou, Fristrup M; Deplancke, B; Vieira, C; Ritchie, MG; Zwaan, B; Tauber, E; Orengo, D; Puerma, E; Aguade, M; Schmidt, P; Parsch, J; Betancourt, A; Flatt, T; Gonzalez, J. Genomic analysis of European Drosophila populations reveals longitudinal structure and continent-wide selection. bioRxiv, 2018.
2017
Manh, Le H; Guio, L; Merenciano, M; Rovira, Q; Barron, M G; Gonzalez, J. Natural and laboratory mutations in kuzbanian are associated with zinc stress phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster. Sci Rep, 7 , pp. 42663, 2017.
2016
Merenciano, M; Ullastres, A; de Cara, M A R; Barron, M G; Gonzalez, J. Multiple Independent Retroelement Insertions in the Promoter of a Stress Response Gene Have Variable Molecular and Functional Effects in Drosophila. PLoS Genet, 12 (8), pp. e1006249, 2016.
2015
Fiston-Lavier, A S; Barron, M G; Petrov, D A; Gonzalez, J. T-lex2: genotyping, frequency estimation and re-annotation of transposable elements using single or pooled next-generation sequencing data. Nucleic Acids Res, 43 (4), pp. e22, 2015.
2014
Barron, M G; Fiston-Lavier, A S; Petrov, D A; Gonzalez, J. Population genomics of transposable elements in Drosophila. Annu Rev Genet, 48 , pp. 561-81, 2014.
Guio, L; Barron, M G; Gonzalez, J. The transposable element Bari-Jheh mediates oxidative stress response in Drosophila. Mol Ecol, 23 (8), pp. 2020-30, 2014.