Prof. Dr. Amparo Acker-Palmer
Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
Biological and related sciences
Genetics
Evolutionary Biology
Adaptation Genomics
Transposable Elements
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, CA. USA, 2006 – 2008
Marie Curie Fellow, IBE, Barcelona. Spain, 2011 – 2015
English, Spanish
Ullastres, A., Petit, N., and González, J. Exploring the phenotypic space and the evolutionary history of a natural mutation in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Biol Evol 32 (7): 1800-1814, 2015.
Fiston-Lavier, A.-S., Barrón, M.G., Petrov, D.A., and González, J. T-lex2: genotyping, frequency estimation and re-annotation of transposable elements using single or pooled next-generation sequencing data. Nucleic Acids Research 43 (4): e22.
Mateo, L., Ullastres, A. and González, J. A transposable element insertion confers xenobiotic resistance in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics 10 (8): e1004560, 2014.
Guio L., Barrón, M.G., and González, J. The transposable element Bari-Jheh mediates oxidative stress response in Drosophila. Molecular Ecology 23: 2020-2030, 2014.
Petrov, D.A., Fiston-Lavier, A.-S. Lipatov, M., Lenkov, K., and González, J. Population genomics of transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(5): 1633-1644, 2011.
González, J., Karasov, T. L., Messer P. W., and Petrov, D. A. Genome-wide patterns of adaptation to temperate environments associated with transposable elements in Drosophila PLoS Genetics 6 (4): e1000905, 2010
González, J., Lenkov, K., Lipatov, M., Macpherson, J. M., and Petrov, D. A. High rate of recent transposable element-induced adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Biology 10 (6): e251, 2008
González, J., Nefedov, M., Bosdet, I., Casals, F., Calvete, O., Delprat, A., Shin, H., Chiu, R., Mathewson, C., Wye, N., Hoskins, R. A., Schein, J. E., de Jong, P., and Ruiz, A. A BAC-based physical map of the Drosophila buzzatii genome. Genome Research 15 (6): 885-892, 2005.
González, J., Casals, F., and Ruiz, A. Duplicative and conservative transpositions of the Larval serum protein 1 genes in the genus Drosophila. Genetics 168 (1): 253-264, 2004.
González, J., Ranz, J. M., and Ruiz, A. Chromosomal elements evolve at different rates in the Drosophila genome. Genetics 161 (3): 1137-1154, 2002.
New approaches to long standing questions: adaptation in Drosophila (H2020-ERC-2014-CoG).
Origin, diversification and diversity of metazoans, fungi and their unicellular relatives; an ecological and evolutionary approach (BFU2014-57779-P).
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)
Societat Catalana de Biologia (SCB)
Selection Committee for the GBE Best Graduate Student Paper 2015 (SMBE)
Training in leadership skills and communication skills
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Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
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Biological and related sciences , Environment, Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology, Landscape Genomics
Biological and related sciences , Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microscopy