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Genomics, NGS, Population genetics, Bioinformatics
Spain

Biography

Eight years of research in genetics’ field, with focus on human genetics and population genetics.
Expertise includes Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), Sanger Sequencing and genotyping.
Experienced in data analysis with in-house pipeline.
Experienced in training and supervising undergraduate medical students in the lab in subject ‘Molecular and Microbiological Basis of Disease’, Medicine Section, University of La Laguna, Spain.

Activities

Employment (4)

Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, ES

2023-03 to 2023-09 | Assistant researcher (Genomics)
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Fundación Canaria Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias (FIISC): Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES

2021-03 to 2022-02 | Advanced technician (Research Unit)
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Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, ES

2017-10 to 2021-10 | PhD student (Genomics)
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Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, ES

2016-09 to 2017-10 | Researcher (Genomics)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of La Laguna: San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Canary Islands, ES

2017 to 2022 | Doctorate of Health Sciences
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University of the Basque Country: Basque Country, ES

2015-10 to 2016-09 | Master's Degree in Forensic Analysis
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University of La Laguna: San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Canary Islands, ES

2011-09 to 2015-07 | Biology
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Professional activities (1)

Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de Tenerife (JINTE): Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, ES

2017-11 to present | Member
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Funding (2)

Ascendencia genómica en las poblaciones humanas de Canarias: mezcla africana, adaptación al ambiente e implicaciones en salud

2019 to 2022 | Grant
Fundación CajaCanarias (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, ES)
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2018PATRI20

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Desarrollo de una Unidad de Diagnóstico Genómico (UDIGEN)

2018 to 2021 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MINECO/AEI/FEDER, UE) (Madrid, ES)
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RTC-2017-6471-1

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Works (14)

Genomic epidemiology of the primary methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones causing invasive infections in Paraguayan children

Microbiology Spectrum
2024-02-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Rosa Guillén; Claudia Salinas; Alejandro Mendoza-Álvarez; Luis A. Rubio Rodríguez; Ana Díaz-de Usera; José M. Lorenzo-Salazar; Rafaela González-Montelongo; Carlos Flores; Fátima Rodríguez; Rafael Vignoli
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Benchmarking of human Y-chromosomal haplogroup classifiers with whole-genome and whole-exome sequence data

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
2023-09-14 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2001-0370
Contributors: Víctor García-Olivares; Adrián Muñoz-Barrera; Luis A. Rubio-Rodríguez; David Jáspez; Ana Díaz-de Usera; Antonio Iñigo Campos; Krishna R. Veeramah; Santos Alonso; Mark G. Thomas; José M. Lorenzo-Salazar et al.
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Genomic epidemiology of the primary methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureusclones causing invasive infections in Paraguayan children

2023-02-01 | Preprint
Contributors: Fátima Rodríguez; Claudia Salinas; Alejandro Mendoza-Alvarez; Ana Díaz-de Usera; José M Lorenzo-Salazar; Rafaela González-Montelongo; Carlos Flores; Rosa Guillén
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Digging into the admixture strata of current-day Canary Islanders based on mitogenomes

iScience
2023-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2589-0042
Contributors: Víctor García-Olivares; Luis A. Rubio-Rodríguez; Adrián Muñoz-Barrera; Ana Díaz-de Usera; David Jáspez; Antonio Iñigo-Campos; María Del Cristo Rodríguez Pérez; Antonio Cabrera de León; José M. Lorenzo-Salazar; Rafaela González-Montelongo et al.
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From Samples to Germline and Somatic Sequence Variation: A Focus on Next-Generation Sequencing in Melanoma Research

Life
2022-11-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Adrián Muñoz-Barrera; Luis A. Rubio-Rodríguez; Ana Díaz-de Usera; David Jáspez; José M. Lorenzo-Salazar; Rafaela González-Montelongo; Víctor García-Olivares; Carlos Flores
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Developing CIRdb as a catalog of natural genetic variation in the Canary Islanders

Scientific Reports
2022-09-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Ana Díaz-de Usera; Luis A. Rubio-Rodríguez; Adrián Muñoz-Barrera; Jose M. Lorenzo-Salazar; Beatriz Guillen-Guio; David Jáspez; Almudena Corrales; Antonio Íñigo-Campos; Víctor García-Olivares; María Del Cristo Rodríguez Pérez et al.
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Admixture Mapping of Sepsis in European Individuals With African Ancestries

Frontiers in Medicine
2022-03-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2296-858X
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A benchmarking of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup classifiers from whole-genome and whole-exome sequence data

Scientific Reports
2021-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Víctor García-Olivares; Adrián Muñoz-Barrera; José M. Lorenzo-Salazar; Carlos Zaragoza-Trello; Luis A. Rubio-Rodríguez; Ana Díaz-de Usera; David Jáspez; Antonio Iñigo-Campos; Rafaela González-Montelongo; Carlos Flores
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Genetic Ancestry Inference and Its Application for the Genetic Mapping of Human Diseases

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2021-06-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Eva Suarez-Pajes; Ana Díaz-de Usera; Itahisa Marcelino-Rodríguez; Beatriz Guillen-Guio; Carlos Flores
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A benchmarking of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup classifiers from whole-genome and whole-exome sequence data

2021-02-12 | Preprint
Contributors: Víctor García-Olivares; Adrián Muñoz-Barrera; José Miguel Lorenzo-Salazar; Carlos Zaragoza-Trello; Luis A. Rubio-Rodríguez; Ana Díaz-de Usera; David Jáspez; Antonio Iñigo Campos; Rafaela González-Montelongo; Carlos Flores
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Evaluation of Whole-Exome Enrichment Solutions: Lessons from the High-End of the Short-Read Sequencing Scale

Journal of Clinical Medicine
2020-11-13 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2077-0383
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Shallow MinION sequencing to assist de novo assembly of the Streptococcus agalactiae genome

2018-12-04 | Preprint
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Genomic Analyses of Human European Diversity at the Southwestern Edge: Isolation, African Influence and Disease Associations in the Canary Islands.

Molecular biology and evolution
2018-12-01 | Journal article
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A genetic overview of Atlantic coastal populations from Europe and North-West Africa based on a 17 X-STR panel.

Forensic science international. Genetics
2016-11-30 | Journal article
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