Instructors

Abel Gonzalez-Perez obtained his PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Havana, Cuba in 2006. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Cuban National Bioinformatics Institute between 2006 and 2008. He has done comparative studies of the transcriptional regulatory networks of bacteria, and signalling pathways in eukaryotes. In August 2010 he started a posdoctoral stay at the Biomedical Genomics group of the University Pompeu Fabra. Currently, he works in the assessment of the impact of single nucleotide polymorphisms on human diseases and their integration with other genomic alterations in cancer.

Michael Schroeder is a Biologist from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He has a Master in Bioinformatics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra he is currently pursuing a PhD at the Biomedical Genomics Group of the same University. His main interests are the study of the effect of genomic alterations in cancer and the identification of functional relationships between cancer alterations.