Dr. Salvador Capella (BSC) will give us a brief review of his professional career and how he became the coordinator of the National Institute of Bioinformatics (INB).

He will tell us about his participation in the European ELIXIR infrastructure. In this talk he will show us the different professional careers in the bioinformatics, biomedicine, and computational biology sector, from the perspective of the young researcher who has made the transition to positions of technical responsibility and coordination.

Biography:

Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez has led the National Bioinformatics Coordination Node (INB) at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) since 2016.

He is currently focused on the development of long-term infrastructure to facilitate scientific benchmarking and monitoring technical bioinformatics tools, web services and workflows in the context of ELIXIR. His team is also responsible for the technical coordination of ELIXIR in Spain, which implies its participation in several bioinformatics projects. These include contributions to the development of the RD-Connect and BluePrint data portal from a technical and scientific perspective. He also participates in the IMI eTRANSAFE and FAIRPlus projects.

Dr. Capella-Gutiérrez received his PhD in bioinformatics in 2012 (CRG / UPF). His work focused on applying evolutionary methods to different omics data to answer biological questions.

His postdoctoral work was carried out in the context of an international project led by the KNAW-CBS Fungal Biodiversity Center that focuses on the development of a computational framework to obtain unique biomarkers to identify human pathogenic fungal species. Dr. Capella-Gutiérrez optimized a protocol for the extraction of fungal DNA from blood samples.

Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez complemented his scientific and technological training by completing the executive program "Accelerate: Building businesses from science and technology" by the IE Business School.

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