Rosana Cortés Garrido
Carrer Olván 8, bajo, 08035 Barcelona, Spain | --| ORCID- | Linkedin
EXPERIENCE
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones cientí cas (CSIC) and Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE)
Project Manager and Bioinformatics Manager | Barcelona, Spain, Jun 23 - Current
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Accounting and nance of the research projects.
Grant writing and applications, including Horizon 2020.
Recruitment and management of scienti c partners.
System Management of Scienti c Filesystems.
Automated backups, disk usage reports, data storage management.
Project Of cer and Data Scientist | Barcelona, Spain, Sep 20 - Jun 23
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Accounting and nance of the research projects.
Data Analysis for research projects.
Differential expression analyses and phylogenomics studies.
Professor of Bioinformatics
Fundació Llor | Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain, Sep 2022 – Sep 23
Centre Santapau-PIFMA and Escola Aloma | Barcelona, Spain, Sep 2020 – Sep 22
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) | Bellaterra, Spain, Sep 2020 – Aug 22
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) | Barcelona, Spain, Sep 2020 – Aug 22
I lectured on Population Genetics, Single-Cell Sciences, Evolutionary computational modelling, and Scienti c
Coaching for the BSc in Genetics, the BSc in Bioinformatics and the MSc in Bioinformatics.
PhD Researcher in Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK, Oct
2018 – Jun 20
Thesis Topic: The evolution of Cellular Networks
Using single-cell RNA sequencing data and network propagation strategies, my work helped to understand
human disease mechanisms and to come up with novel plausible drug targets.
Msc Researcher in Data Science
Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) | Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2016 – Jun 18
Thesis Topic: Differential DNA methylation
I optimized a new approached (the multi-Canonical Correlation Analysis) for multidimensional data analysis in
epidemiology to discover new epigenetic biomarkers linked to cardiovascular disease.
Young Scientist in Molecular Biology
Wellcome Trust – MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK, 2014 - 15
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) | Barcelona, Spain, 2010
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) | Bellaterra, Spain, 2009 – 10
RESEARCH SKILLS
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Data Analytics & management: lesystems management, data retrieving, cleaning and quality control,
visualisation and statistical inferences. Genome-Wide Association Studies and Epigenome-Wide
Association Studies (GWAS and EWAS), Differential Expression analysis (DE), including single-cell RNA
sequencing analysis (scRNA seq), read mapping, protein homology search and Phylogenetic
reconstruction.
Experimental protocols: animal models, primary and stem cells culture, uorescence in situ
hybridization (FISH) and Fluorescence microscopy, DNA cloning and transfection, RT-PCR, ow cytometry
and cell sorting, ribosome pro ling, bisulphite and RNA sequencing.
Fieldwork campaigns: including climbing and caving titles (Recurso preventivo en salidas de campaña
en medio terrestre).
Languages: English pro ciency, native Spanish and Catalan.
Programming languages: R, Python and Bash.
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EDUCATION
Further specialisation in Data Analytics and Communication
MicroMaster in Python for Data Science | University of California San Diego | San Diego, US, Jan - Jun 24
Google Data Analytics Specialisation with R | Google Career Certi cates | Remote, Feb - Jul 24
Software Carpentry: Good Programming Practices | University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK, Aug 19
Scienti c Integrity: publish reproducible results | EMBL | Heidelberg, Germany, Oct 18
Writing Scienti c Research Papers | EMBO Press | Heidelberg, Germany, Nov 19
PhD in Computational Biology | University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK, Oct 2018 – March 21
Thesis topic:
Using single-cell transcriptomics to study the biology of the cell types.
MS in Teaching (Biology major) | Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio | Madrid, Spain, Oct 2020 – Jun 21
Thesis topic:
Introducción de las Ciencias de la Computación como materia troncal en el currículo del
Bachillerato de Ciencias y Tecnología de LOMLOE.
MSc in Health and Physical Activity | Universitat Ramon Llull | Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2016 – Jun 17
Grade:
Thesis topic:
9.22/10 (1st-class)
Identi cation of dietary patterns associated with differential DNA methylation: an EpigenomeWide approach. The Regicor Study.
BSc in Genetics (Honors) | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Bellaterra, Spain, Sep 2011 - 16
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Honours:
Thesis topic:
8.74/10 (1st-class)
Evolution, Ecology, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Molecular Genetic Diagnosis, Cytogenetics,
Microbiology, and Bachelor’s Thesis.
The Genomics’ Big Data Problem (grade 10/10).
PUBLICATIONS
Blanco, S., Bandiera, R., Popis, M., Hussain, S., Lombard, P., Aleksic, J., Sajini, A., Tanna, H., Cortés-Garrido, R.,
Gkatza, N., Dietmann, S. and Frye, M. (2016) Stem cell function and sensitivity to cytotoxic stress are controlled
by protein translation rates. Nature, 534: 335-340
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
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EMBL PhD Fellowship, Oct 2018 – Apr 2022
ERASMUS+ Programme: University of Cambridge, Aug 2014 – Aug 2015
Best scores for University Admission Tests, Obra Social de CatalunyaCaixa, Jan 2012
Best High School Thesis, Premi Miquel Segura, May 2011
Programme for Academic Excellence, I tu? Jo Bioquimica, Jul 2009
Programme for Academic Excellence, Joves i Ciència, Jun 2008 – Sept 2011
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