Rocío Pérez-Portela, PhD
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Ramón y Cajal Researcher
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University of Barcelona
Dept. Evolutionary Biology, Ecology & Environmental Sciences
Spain
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rocio_perez@ub.edu
Ongoing projects
DIVERGEN: Genetic adaptability of marine species to natural analogous gradients of our future oceans
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(Funded by Fundación BBVA)
PI: R Pérez-Portela
Past projects
Population genomics of coral reef species
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The aims of this project are to assess genectic structure, to identify genes involved in adaptation in several coral and fish species, and to solve systematic concerns of coral species using SNPs isolated by Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS).
Evaluating human impacts on marine species based on gene expression and trascriptomic data from Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
(Funded by The Spanish Government)
PI: R Pérez-Portela
This project assesses stress responses, based on gene expression data generated by RNA-seq in a sea urchin species that has recently colonised the Mediterranean Sea.
GORGENE: Genetic structure and connectivity of deep populations of the gorgonian Paramuricea clavata along the Catalan Coast.
(Funded by Fundación La Caixa)
PI: R Pérez-Portela
GORGENE evaluates the genetic structure and bottlenecks of deep populations found in several marine canyons of a Mediterranean gorgonian affected by mass mortalities using microsatellites.
This research has been developed within the Association for “Environmental Education S’Agulla”. To see our blog please click here:
BRIDEEP: Systematics of brittlestars from European deep waters using morphological and molecular data
(Funded by The Linnean Society of London & The Systematics Association)
PI: R Pérez-Portela
PASSER & PASSERCAT: Variation of genetic diversity levels of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) in urban populations during the last decades
(Funded by The Natural History Museum of Barcelona & Barcelona Zoo Foundation)
CoPI: R Pérez-Portela & J Quesada Lara
PASSER and PASSERCAT have the objective of measuring the effect of populations' decline of the house sparrow across the area of Barcelona.
Using museum samples opens important perspectives to study genetic trends into populations within a large temporal framework.