Andrés Pérez Figueroa Email & Phone Number

Matosinhos, Portugal

- Developing a simulation model of somatic evolution to study the relationship between the rate of fixation of non-synonymous and synonymous mutations (dN/dS) and the selection coefficient in the presence of deleterious, neutral, and beneficial mutations in cancer.

- Building the pipeline for the transcriptomic analyses from RNA-seq data in order to obtain a matrix of homologous sequence data for the phylogenomic study of closely related, non-model organisms without a reference genome.- Comparing simulation models of cancer to evaluate the impact of selection in the intratumoral heterogeneity.- Data analyses of.

Vigo, Galicia / Galiza, España

- Development metapop2, written in C++, an extended re-implementation of METAPOP for the analysis of gene and allelic diversity in subdivided populations, as well as a tool for management and optimization in conservation programs.- Bioinformatic analysis of alternative splicing in non muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Vigo, Galicia / Galiza, España

- Funded by different projects in the Population Genetics and Cytogenetics Group- Developing an R package, msap, for the statistical analysis of methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism data- Analysis of methylation data of different fishes.- Analysis of microarray and transcriptomic data from marine organisms.- Analysis of data from conservation and.

Vigo, Galicia / Galiza, España

- Developing simulation models and analyses to asses different conservation genetic issues.- Developing a JAVA software for the management and analysis of subdivided populations in conservation programs.- Comparing statistical properties of different methods to detect selective loci using dominant markers.- Teaching duties (Fundamentals of Systematics.

- Coordination of the network activities- Building and deploying the network's web

Vairao, Vila Do Conde, Portugal

- Postdoctoral residence, funded by Xunta de Galicia, under the supervision of Gordon Luikart and Albano Beja-Pereira- Developing a simulation model to evaluate the performance of two population effective size estimators to detect population declines: the two-sample temporal method and a one-sample method based on linkage disequilibrium.- Data analysis to.

United States

- Postdoctoral residence, funded by Xunta de Galicia, in the Biological Division Sciences under the supervision of Gordon Luikart - Developing a simulation model (written in python) to assess and analyse conservation issues in the management of the Yellowstone Bison

Vairão, Vila Do Conde, Portugal

- Postdoctoral residence, funded by Xunta de Galicia, under the supervision of Gordon Luikart and Albano Beja-Pereira- Developing a simulation model (written in python) to assess and analyse conservation issues in the management of the Yellowstone Bison- Data analysis to asses the effect of age-structure on estimation of population size

Madrid, Comunidad De Madrid, España

- Postdoctoral residence, funded by Xunta de Galicia, in the Department of Genetics under the supervision of professor Aurora García-Dorado.- Developing simulation model (in C) to assess the action of purifying selection, mutation and drift on fitness epistatic systems.

Vigo, Galicia / Galiza, España

- Developing simulation models of quantitative genetic traits.- Finishing the PhD. Thesis

Vigo, Galicia / Galiza, España

- PhD. Thesis- Developing a model selection procedure using computer simulations to investigate the contribution of the different evolutionary forces towards the maintenance of the polymorphism of the marine snail Littorina saxatilis.- Comparing the estimation properties of different statistics for measuring sexual isolation from mating frequencies..

Vigo, Galicia / Galiza, España

- Experimental work on artificial selection and inbreeding of Drosophila Melanogaster to understand the underlying quantitative genetic effects.- Developing simulation models of the experiments.

Vigo, Galicia / Galiza, España

- Collaboration in the maintenance of the facilities for the breeding and experimentation of marine organisms (4h / week)

Phd, Population Genetics

Theoretical studies about reproductive isolation and the evolutionary forces that explain the polimorphism in an hybrid zone of Littorina.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology