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”
	Guillem Casanovas Sanglas, BSc in Biotechnology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). MSc in Advanced Biotechnology (Specialised in Molecular and Therapeutic Biotechnology) at UAB. MSc student in Bioinformatics at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). PhD student at the UVic-UCC program in Bioinformatics at UVIC-UCC/BIB. PhD thesis : “Phylogenetic and Metabolic Analysis of Pond Ecosystems Along Land-Use and Climatic Gradients in Europe: Impact of Pesticide Pollution and Climate Change” (co-supervision with Dr. Mireia Bartrons).
	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
	Carla Batlle Simó, BSc student, Biotechnology at the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. BSc Project:”Gene Regulatory Networks inference in pancreatic beta cells”. Co-supervised by Dr. Noèlia Téllez Besoli.
	Marc Tomàs Moncunill, BSc student, Biotechnology at the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering at UVic-UCC. BSc Project:”Molecular simulations of peptides aggregation and function”. Co-supervised by Dr. Toni Parcerisas Mosqueda.
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