José Luis Villanueva-Cañas

Postdoctoral researcher. I am a computational biologist by training: equally fascinated by the potential of computers to solve problems and by the diversity and complexity of the life on our planet. I obtained my PhD in the Evolutionary Genomics group, under the supervision of Mar Albà in 2015. There, I studied the origin and evolution of mammalian-specific genes and their role in adaptation. Here at the González Lab I aim to localize and investigate the role of recent TE insertions in adaptation.

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2017

Villanueva-Cañas, J L; Rech, G E; de Cara, M A R; González, J; Kelley, J. Beyond SNPs: how to detect selection on transposable element insertions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8 (6), pp. 728-737, 2017.