Ana Conesa

The researcher Ana Conesa Cegarra, from the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, UV/CSIC), has been elected as a new fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB), a global academic society that integrates research personnel in computational biology and bioinformatics, and that dedicates its efforts to improving the scientific and social impact of computational biology.

The ISCB will officially recognize Ana Conesa as a fellow during the 2023 ISMB/ECCB conference to be held from July 23 to 27 in Lyon (France), and will do so for the scientist's interesting contributions to the field of functional genomics, gene expression and multi-omics analysis, thanks to the development of bioinformatics tools widely used by biologists and bioinformaticians. Conesa has been a pioneer in the field of long-read transcriptomics and has developed more than 20 tools used by tens of thousands of scientists around the world. Conesa Cegarra is a Research Professor at the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology of the Higher Scientific Research Council (CSIC) in Valencia, and Courtesy Professor at the University of Florida. She is an agricultural engineer from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a doctor in molecular microbiology from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. After ten years of research in the Netherlands, she returned within the Ramón y Cajal talent recovery program to the Agricultural Research Institute of Valencia and later became director of the Genomics of Gene Expression Laboratory at the Príncipe Felipe Research Center in Valencia. In 2014 she was hired by the University of Florida as a full professor in bioinformatics, a position she held until joining the CSIC in 2021. style="color:black">With more than 20 years of experience in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics, the researcher has a strong commitment to the development of high-quality bioinformatics methods to help the scientific community in general to analyze gene expression data. She was the first bioinformatician to become a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and is an honorary member of the Spanish Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. style="color:black">His laboratory develops computational methods for the study of transcriptome functionality and the integration of multi-omics data for modeling development and disease processes. Likewise, it has created more than twenty software tools that are used by tens of thousands of researchers around the world. She has been a pioneer in the creation of computational methods for the application of single-molecule sequencing technologies to the study of the transcriptome. Some of its most popular software tools are Blast2GO, PaintOmics, maSigPro, NOISeq, Qualimap, SQANTI, tappAS, etc. style="color:#af071f">She is the third Spaniard recognized as a fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology. The other two are Alfonso Valencia, researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – National Center for Supercomputing, and Nuria López-Bigas, scientist at the Biomedical Research Institute (IRB Barcelona). href="http://conesalab.org/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">Link

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