Author Archives: rogercasals

Roger Casals presents his doctoral research at scverse 2025

Posted by 1 de December de 2025

Last November, Roger Casals, PhD candidate at the Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics Lab (CBBL), travelled to Stanford University to take part in scverse 2025, one of the key gatherings for the single-cell and multi-omics community.

During the conference, Roger presented a poster with some of the latest results from his PhD. His project focuses on building gene regulatory networks from single-cell data to understand cell state transitions, a line of work that is becoming increasingly important as we try to make sense of complex biological systems.

Beyond the science, the conference gave Roger the chance to meet many members of the scverse community, discuss ideas in person, and learn from researchers developing cutting-edge tools. Topics like agentic AI and virtual cell models were especially exciting, forecasting us where the field is heading.

Roger’s participation was possible thanks to a travel grant from the conference, along with support from the Department of Biosciences (FCTE), the BI-Squared Group, and IRIS-CC.

 

Roger Casals co-authors a Benchmarking study on Multimodal Gene Regulatory Networks

Posted by 27 de December de 2024

We are thrilled to announce the publication of a new preprint, “Comparison and evaluation of methods to infer gene regulatory networks from multimodal single-cell data”, led by Pau Badia-i-Mompel as the first author, with contributions from Roger Casals and the Saez-Lab team.

In this work, we present Gene Regulatory nETwork Analysis (GRETA), a comprehensive framework designed to infer, compare, and evaluate gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Using GRETA, we benchmarked both multimodal and unimodal GRN inference methods, setting a foundation for future advancements in the field.

GRETA graphical abstract

This preprint is an important step in understanding multiomic gene regulatory networks and reflects the collaborative efforts of the Saez-Lab, under the leadership of Julio Saez-Rodriguez.

Check out the results and tools here:

If you want to stay updated or join the discussion, check out our announcement on BlueSky.