Pere Puigbò Avalos Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department Rovira i Virgili University. Tarragona. Contact adress: Pere Puigbò Avalos Departament de Bioquímica i Biotecnologia Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) Campus Sescelades c/ Marcel·li Domingo s/n 43007 TARRAGONA SPAIN Phone:+34 977558486 Fax:+34 977558232 Email: ppuigbo at urv.cat

ACADEMIC RECORD

2003-2007: PhD thesis at Evolutionary Genomics Group, Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department, 'Rovira i Virgili' University. 2006: Visitor at Bioinformatics Laboratory, Biology Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 2005 PhD Student and diploma of advanced studies at Evolutionary Genomics Group, Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department, 'Rovira i Virgili' University. pdf pps 2004 M.Sc degree in Experimental Biology at Physiology Department, Biology Faculty, Barcelona University. pdf 2003-2004 Associate Professor at Physiology Department, Biology Faculty, Barcelona University 2003 B.Sc degree in Biology at Barcelona University

PUBLICATIONS

- Puigbò P., Pasamontes A. and Garcia-Vallvé S. (2008) Gaining and losing the thermophilic adaptation in prokaryotes. Trends in Genetics. In press.      - Puigbò P., Romeu A. and Garcia-Vallvé S. (2008) HEG-DB: a datase of predicted highly expressed genes in prokaryotic complete genomes under translational selection. Nucleic Acids Research. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm831.      Puigbò P., Garcia-Vallvé S. and McInerney J.O. (2007) TOPD/FMTS: a new software to compare phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm135.      Puigbò P., Guzmán E., Romeu A. and Garcia-Vallvé S. (2007) OPTIMIZER: A web server for optimizing the codon usage of DNA sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm219.      Rojas A, Montero MA, Guzmán E, Pallejà A, Puigbò P, Garcia-Vallvé S and Romeu A. Thodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975). El naixement de la teoria sintètica. Actes de la VIII trobada d'història de la ciència i de la tècnica. Barcelona, SCHCT, 2006. 349-354.      Villar J.L., Puigbò P., Riera-Codina M. (2003) Analysis of highly phosphorylated inositols in avian and crocodilian erythrocytes. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol. 135:169-75.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Translational selection and highly expressed genes: Evolutionary Genomics and Phylogenomics: Development of new Bioinformatic tools for Genome Analysis:

SOCIETY MEMBER

Societat Catalana de Biologia (SCB) Col·legi Oficial de Biolegas de Catalunya (COBC) Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (SEBBM) Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva (SESBE) Red Nacional de Bioinformática Red Nacional de Genómica Bacteriana Xarxa Catalana de Bioinformàtica Xarxa Catalana de Genòmica i Proteòmica