Members

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: “Selenoproteomic and Bioinformatic Studies of Human Cancer Cell Lines In Response To Selenium Containing Compounds”.
	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
	Aina Altimiras, BSc student, Biotechnology at the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. Aina works on the modelling of single cell data in a collaboration with IRSICAIXA. Co-supervised by Roger Casals and Adrián López
	Bernat Casajuana, BSc student, Biomedicine at the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. Bernat works on the modelling of metabolic pathways related to diabetes. Co-supervised by Dr. Alba Casellas
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.
	Adrián López García de Lomana. PhD, University of Iceland. Quantitative Biology.
	Syed Jawad Ali Shah. PhD, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Pakistan. Molecular dynamics calculations of peptide interactions
Visitors
	Marcia Yineth Castillo Tarazona. PhD student at Universidad de los Andes. AI in drug discovery and protein-ligand binding simulations. Supervisor: Gian Pietro Miscione.
	Ariadna Llop Peiró. PhD student at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Binding calculations of SARS-CoV-2 MPro inhibitors. Supervisor: Gerard Pujadas.