This is the list of current members of the CBBL. For past members and regularly updated information of their current whereabouts, check this link.

 

Principal investigator
Jordi Villà i Freixa, PhD, CBBL leader, Full Professor at the Department of Biosciences of the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. Member of the research Group on Bioinformatics and Bioimaging, (Bi-squared).
PhD Students
Roger Casals, BSc in Biotechnology (UAB). MSc student in Bioinformatics (UOC). Working in methodologies for dynamical analysis of transcriptomics data (co-supervision with Dr. Adrián López García de Lomana). PhD thesis: “Mechanistic prediction of cell state transitions at single-cell resolution”
Nayanika Das, MSc in Bioinformatics. PhD student at the UVic-UCC program in Bioinformatics at UVic-UCC/BIBcn. Working in in structure-function relationships in selenoproteins and their protective role in cancer (co-supervision with Prof. Vijay Baladhye, Bioinformatics center, University of Pune) through free energy calculations. PhD thesis: “Activation Free-Energy Profiles in Natural and Artificial Enzymes from Empirical Valence Bond Simulations”.
Jing Yang, MSc in Advanced Nursing Clinical Practice(Cancer specialised). PhD student at the UVic-UCC program in Bioinformatics at UVic-UCC/BIBcn. working in biological data analysis (co-supervision with Dr. Adrián López García de Lomana). PhD thesis: “A quantitative view of the heterogeneity-diversity axis in biological systems—from the tumor microenvironment to the pond ecosystem”
BSc students
Clara Alabau, BSc student, Biotechnology at the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. Clara works on the modelling of single cell data in celliaquism. Co-supervised by Roger Casals.
Bernat Casajuana, BSc student, Biomedicine at the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. Bernat works on the modelling of gene regulatory networks. Co-supervised by Roger Casals.
Éric Carrascosa Iglesias, BSc student, Multimedia, Games and Applicationsat the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. Éric works on implementaing a VR practical training activity for students in the subject of Protein Chemistry and Engineering
Ian Carbó, BSc student, Statistics at the UPC. Ian gives upport to several statistics, simulation and ML/AI related projects in the lab, ranging from ecotoxicology to gene regulatory networks.
Collaborators
Mireia Bartrons. PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Biosciences of the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. Member of the research Group on Aquatic Ecology.
Martin Floor Pilquil. PhD, Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Enzyme design.
Adrián López García de Lomana. PhD, University of Iceland. Quantitative Biology.
Syed Jawad Ali Shah. PhD, School of Medicine, Qilu Institute of Technology, Jinan, China. Molecular dynamics simulations of peptides and IDPs