Victor Carrion Bravo
Assistant Profesor and MicroSOS coordinator, IHSM (UMA-CSIC)
Victor is the head of Carrionlab. In the microSOS project, he is the coordinator and leads the team of IHSM (UMA-CSIC) together with Noé Fernández Pozo. His research interest is to understand the underlying mechanisms of plant protection against (a)biotic stresses mediated by microorganisms.
“We specialize in the development of new multidisciplinary approaches to systematically correlate microbial genes and biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) to their functions in plants under stress”.
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Marcos Pedraza
PhD Candidate
Marcos is a PhD candidate at the Carrion Lab, IHSM UMA-CSIC, and a graduate of Malaga University with an MSc in Advanced Biotechnology.
His journey into scientific exploration began with a research initiation scholarship, igniting his passion for investigating plant viruses. His current research delves into the “omic” study of the avocado microbiome, with a particular emphasis on its potential as a tool for biological control against plant fungal diseases.
Belen Delgado
Bioinformatician
Belen currently works as Bioinformatician at Carrion Lab since September 2024.
Her work center on providing support to the research group across various projects within the field of genomics, metagenomics and metabolomics.
Dr. Noé Fernández Pozo
Tenured Scientist
Dr. Noé Fernández Pozo leads the genomics and bioinformatics research at the Breeding and developmental biology of subtropical fruit crops group at IHSM-UMA-CSIC, where he is a tenured scientist.
He applies bioinformatics to study subtropical and Mediterranean plant species such as avocado, mango, cherimoya and olive. He studies gene functions in these plants to understand which genes are responsible for traits of agricultural interest that can be used for plant breeding, with focus on abiotic stresses, and fruit quality. He has extensive experience in NGS bioinformatics analyses and web tool development, such as The Sol Genomics Network, the Tomato Expression atlas and the SGN VIGS tool
Amanda Bullones
PhD Candidate
Amanda is a PhD student in the Integrative Bioinformatics for Plant Stress group at the group of Breeding and developmental biology of subtropical fruit crops at IHSM UMA-CSIC
Her research focuses on the study of the molecular mechanisms of plant responses to abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity and high temperatures, in Mediterranean species. She has experience in RNA-seq data analysis, including quality control, preprocessing, read alignment, quantification, differential gene expression, correlations and functional enrichment. She is also co-developer of an R workflow for processing RNA-seq datasets, and developer of another R workflow for gene set enrichment analysis.
Enrique López Gómez
Biologist
I´m Enrique, a Biologist, focused in the field of Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology. I´m a PhD candidate in the group of Breeding and developmental biology of subtropical fruit crops at IHSM UMA-CSIC
My research center on the development of bioinformatics tools and data analysis at the IHSM-CSIC-UMA. where I was developing databases and an expression atlas. Previously, during my Biology Degree, I developed a workflow for the detection of genetic variations in rare diseases at SCBI in UMA, where I took my first steps in the world of bioinformatics and programming.
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Kevin Bretscher
PhD Candidate
Kevin has a MSc in biology and currently is doing his PhD at Carrion lab at Leiden University
His research interest focuses on Salt stress, Amplicon sequencing, plant-microbe interactions. In his current role he is part of the MicroGRICE project, whose primary goal is to reduce methane emissions from rice paddies through bacteria. His overarching research goal is the development of microbe-centered strategies that will improve the sustainability of rice cultivation.
Pascal Nuijten
PhD Candidate
Pascal is a PhD candidate working in the Microbial Resilience to drought stress (MicroRes) project at Carrion Lab at Leiden University.
Over the last three years his research has been centered on understanding microbe-plant interactions under drought stress. With a diverse background in bioinformatics, microbiology and molecular biology, he applies a multifaceted approach to his studies.
Guillermo Guerrero Egido
PhD Candidate
Guillermo is MSc in Bioinformatics and System Biology and currently, PhD candidate at Carrion lab at Leiden University.
His work centers around the development of the comparative genomics automated pipeline “bacLife” focused on the prediction of bacterial lifestyle and lifestyle-associated genesand transcriptomics.
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