Vavouri’s lab, Institut Josep Carreras

*August 2021 - Present*
Bioinformatician & master's thesis student

Under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Vavouri, I am studying the PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and their biogenesis. In January of 2022, I completed my master’s thesis (MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, UOC) with honors, in which I analyzed the piRNA variation across closely related species and the factors influencing this variation.

My tasks in this position have been::

• Development of a pipeline to pre-process small RNA-seq data with focus to the analysis of piRNAs.
• Development of an approach for differential expression analysis without gene length differences when comparing multiple species.
• Mentoring of bachelor’s and master’s thesis students.

Master’s thesis:

• Analysis of the variation in piRNA expression across three Mus species.