Urko M. Marigorta

Urko M. Marigorta
December 2011
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28 December 1983 (Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain)
Roc Boronat 54 (08005) Barcelona, Spain
(+34)-690034468
[email protected]
http://www.urko.info
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Population Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology to study human
population history and the genetic architecture of complex traits
EDUCATION
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Ph.D. Biomedical Research
2007-2012
Advisor: Prof. Arcadi Navarro
Thesis: “Human diversity and the genetic architecture
of complex traits”
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Certificat d’aptitud Pedagògica
(Spanish High School Teaching Certificate)
Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Graduate studies of Humanities
(2nd cycle not completed)
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
M.S. Biomedical Research
B.S. Human Biology
2006-2007
2004-2007
2006-2007
2001-2006
FUNDING
Ph.D. grant with teaching duties - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
TEACHING
M.S in Bioinformatics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Biomedical Data Analysis (“Statistical Analysis with R”)
16 hours per year
2009-2011
Biomedical Informatics (“Databases of Human Polymorphism”)
8 hours per year
2008-2011
Biology Graduate studies (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Zoology – Assistant Lecturer
64 hour
Evolution – Assistant Lecturer
16 hours per year
Ecology – Assistant Lecturer
12 hours per year
PBL (Problem Based Learning)
Assistant Teacher
2009
2008-2010
2009
2008-2011
JOURNAL PAPERS
PUBLISHED
1.- Urko M. Marigorta, Oscar Lao, Ferran Casals, Francesc Calafell,
Carlos Morcillo-Suárez, Rui Faria, Elena Bosch, François Serra, Jaume
Bertranpetit, Hernán Dopazo and Arcadi Navarro:
“Recent human evolution has shaped geographical differences in
susceptibility to disease”
BMC Genomics 2011, 12:55 (Highly accessed article on BioMed Central)
2.- Elodie Gazave, Fleur Darré, Carlos Morcillo-Suárez, Natalia PetitMarty, Angel Carreño, Urko M. Marigorta, Oliver A. Ryder, Antoine
Blancher, Mariano Rocchi, Elena Bosch, Carl Baker, Tomàs MarquèsBonet, Evan E. Eichler and Arcadi Navarro:
“Copy number variation analysis in the great apes reveals speciesspecific patterns of structural variation”
Genome Research 2011 Oct;21(10):1626-39
SUBMITTED
3.- Isabel Mendizabal, Urko M. Marigorta, Oscar Lao and David Comas
“Adaptive evolution of loci covarying with the human African Pygmy
Phenotype”
Under review in MBE
IN PREPARATION
4.- Arcadi Navarro, Elodie Gazave, Carlos Morcillo-Suárez, Txema
Heredia, Angel Carreño, Urko M. Marigorta and collaborators
“Genome-wide association study of several human behavioural traits”
Urko M. Marigorta – CV
December 2011
5.- Gabriel Santpere, Fleur Darré, Urko M. Marigorta, Angel Carreño,
Txema Heredia, Mar M. Albà, Pablo Villoslada and Arcadi Navarro
“Characterizing genomic Diversity of EBV B95-8 transforming strain in
individuals from the 1,000 genomes”
6.- Urko M. Marigorta and Arcadi Navarro
“Disease associated variants unravelled by GWAS are common and
shared through populations”
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Strong knowledge on statistical data analysis
Programming in R and Perl
MySQL Database management
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, Catalan and Basque
CONFERENCES
2011 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: The Biology of Genomes
10th – 14th May, CSHL, New York, USA – Poster presentation
2009 Molecular Antropology in the Genomic Era
4th International conference of the “DNA polymorphisms in human populations”
3th – 5th December, Rome, Italy
2008 Annual Meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution
5th – 8th June, Barcelona, Spain) – Poster presentation
3rd Conference European Human Behaviour and Evolution - EHBE
(2nd – 4th April, Montpellier, France
COURSES
2009 Summer Course on Human Population Genetics Course (5 ECTS)
Rasmus Nielsen, Ida Moltke, Anders Albrechtsen, Montgomery Slatkin, Andy
Clark
3-7th August, Copenhagen, Denmark
Molecular Markers and Population Genetics (MMPG09 Course)
Mark Beaumont, Lounès Chikhi, Vítor Sousa
15th - 19th June, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia,Oeiras, Portugal
2008 Symposium on Genetics of Complex Diseases
1st - 2nd October, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Urko M. Marigorta – CV
December 2011
Urko M. Marigorta – CV
December 2011