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Torrents Arenales, David
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ICREA Research Professor at CNS - BSC (Centro Nacional de Supercomputación - Barcelona Supercomputing Center). Life & Medical Sciences
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I obtained the PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Barcelona in 2000, which was awarded with the University PhD Extraordinary Prize. Then I moved to the group of Peer Bork to enter in the world of genomics, at the EMBL in Heidelberg, where I stayed from 2000 to 2006. The first two years I was funded with an EMBO long term fellowship.
Currently, since 2006, I'm group leader at the Joint IRB-BSC program on Computational Biology in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center doing research in computational biomedicine.
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Research Interests
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Genomes are the central molecules of life because they carry all the information necessary for the development, the survival and the reproduction of all organisms. They have been carrying this information from the origins of life without interruption, acquiring complexity and changes that provide adaptation and improvements to the species. The comparison of genomes allows the detection of these changes as evolutionary marks of adaptation and diversity and also of conserved regions as marks for functionality. In our laboratory we are interested in detecting, classifying and analyzing genomic regions that control when and where genes have to be expressed. We are also interested in detecting the alterations in the genomes that lead to susceptibility or to the development of several known genetic diseases.
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Key Words
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Genomics, Bioinformatics, Gene Regulation, Evolution
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