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Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi
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ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Life & Medical Sciences
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Arcadi Navarro i Cuartiellas obtained a PhD in Biology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. After quitting the academic world for a few years, he went back to basic research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He entered the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2002 as a researcher within the Ramón y Cajal program and was appointed ICREA Research Professor at the UPF in November 2006. Currently he is Professor of Genetics at the UPF, where he leads a research group in Evolutionary Genomics within the Program of Evolutionary Biology and Complex Systems of the Department of Experimental and Heath Sciences. He is also the director of the Population Genomics Node of the Spanish National Institute for Bioinformatics and vice-director of the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (IBE) a institute jointly formed by the UPF and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
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Research Interests
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Life as we see it in our planet today has been shaped by many different biological processes during billions of years. These processes leave a signature in our genomes in the form of differences between species, or between individuals of the same species. Interrogating these patterns of genome diversity we can infer what are the forces that affect living organisms, how and when they act and how do they affect such various things as biodiversity, human emotions or the differential susceptibility of different persons to certain diseases. All this knowledge empowers us to control our future but, above all, it is fun to obtain.
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KeyWords
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Genome Evolution
Computational Genomics
Human Genome Diversity
The Genomic Architecture of Complex Traits.
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