Evolutionary Processes Modeling
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Donate WeghornPrincipal investigator Donate did her PhD at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Cologne, Germany. After that she moved to the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, for her postdoc years. She started her group at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in October 2018. |
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Miguel Cortés GuzmánPhD student Miguel obtained his Bachelor's degree in Biosciences and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Technological Institute of Monterrey in Mexico. His Master thesis work focused on the comparison of gene co-expression metrics, pipelines, and analysis of gene networks. His interests lie in tumor evolutionary dynamics and tissue-specific cancer genes. |
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Nica GutuPostdoc Nica completed her Bachelor's degree in Physics at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, and Master's degree in Engineering Physics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. Next, she obtained her doctoral degree in Biophysics at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany, focusing on the chronobiological regulation of cellular proliferation and drug responses in tumor cells. Nica is interested in how the heterogeneity of mutation rates, under the influence of selection processes, shape tumor evolution. |
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Maria KellyPhD student Maria is a Böhringer-Ingelheim PhD fellow. She completed her undergraduate and Master's degrees in Mathematics at Oxford University. She specialized in the mathematical modeling of biological systems, from neuron firing to genetics. Her Master's thesis focused on computational models of the delta-notch signaling pathway. Maria is interested in modeling evolution and cancer. |
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Josep MorandoResearch assistant Josep holds a Bachelor's in Biology and a Master's in Biodiversity with a specialisation in evolutionary biology, both from the University of Barcelona. He carried out both theses at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) in Avignon, France, first investigating local adaptation in wild populations of European beech and later reconstructing their demographic history through genetic data analyses. His broader interest lies in how the tools and concepts of population genetics-from detecting selection to inferring demographic history-can reveal patterns of variation, adaptation, and disease relevant to both ecological and clinical contexts. |
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Javier Ordoñez AraujoPhD student Javier completed a Bachelor's degree in Physics and a Master's degree in Astronomy at the National University of Colombia, focusing on data analysis of cold solar observations in the chromosphere. His work in the group centers on analyzing cancer evolution through simulations and data analysis, exploring tumor-immune system interactions. |
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Martina Sangenís I CrusiResearch assistant Martina obtained her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and her Master's degree in Bioinformatics at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Her Master's thesis focused on integrating different omics datasets in the context of nutritional studies. She is interested in cancer research, omics technologies integration, and evolution. |