Category Archives: People

Welcome to Monica and Fabian!

Posted on July 6, 2018 by dposada

Monica Valecha (India) and Fabián Crespo (Cuba/Ecuador) just arrived to start as PhD students in the CONTRA Marie Curie Innovative Training Network on Computational Oncology.  They are going to work on different aspects of cancer evolution. Welcome to the lab!. Now … Continue reading →

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Welcome back to Miguel Arenas, now as RyC fellow!

Posted on May 5, 2017 by dposada

Miguel Arenas just started a PI position here as a Ramon and Cajal fellow, 7 years after defending his PhD in our lab. During his postdoctoral time Miguel has worked in different methodological aspects of population genetics and molecular evolution in … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Jose Luis Soto, a new PhD student!

Posted on May 2, 2017 by dposada

Jose Luis Soto starts today his PhD on cancer population genetics. He got a FPI fellowship associate to pour project CANCERPOP and will be working on understanding intratumoral heterogeneity in colorecta colon cancer from an evolutionary perspective. Welcome to the … Continue reading →

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Diego Darriba got his PhD!

Posted on April 4, 2016 by dposada

Diego Darriba defended today with success (“Sobresaliente cum laude“) his Ph.D thesis entitled “Selection of models of genomic evolution in HPC environments” supervised by Guillermo López (UDC),  Ramón Doallo (UDC) and David Posada (UVIGO). The thesis was carried out jointly carried … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Bernardo Rodríguez (PhD student)!

Posted on March 13, 2016 by dposada

Bernardo Rodríguez just joined our lab to do a PhD with Jose Tubio and David Posada on transposable element evolution in cancer.

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Jose Tubío joined the lab as RyC!

Posted on January 11, 2016 by dposada

Jose Tubío just joined our group as a Ramon and Cajal fellow, coming from the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (UK). Jose is focused on the study of transposable elements mobilized somatically in cancer genomes, and … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Harry Detering!

Posted on October 6, 2015 by dposada

Harry just joined our lab as a grad student to work on the benchmarking of clonal tree inference from cancer NGS data. He recently completed is MSc degree in Bioinformatics at the Free University of Berlin. Willkommen!

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Farewell to Leo Martins!

Posted on May 4, 2015 by dposada

Leo Martins has recently left our lab to start a new adventure at Molly Stevens Lab at Imperial College London. There he will work on statistical analysis of Raman spectra for different applications, and probably on other things.   It … Continue reading →

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Two new PhD fellowships!

Posted on April 9, 2015 by dposada

Congratulations to Nuria and Tamara for being awarded a competitive doctoral fellowship from the Galician Government! 2 out of 2… not bad..

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Joao Alves just joined the lab!

Posted on February 2, 2015 by dposada

Joao Alves has joined our lab to do a postdoc on NGS cancer evolution. Joao comes from IPATIMUP and has worked before on human population genomics. Welcome!

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