Position

Professor of Genetics (UVEG)
Head, Genomics and Health Area, Centre for Public Health Research (CSISP), Conselleria de Sanitat

Education

1988      Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of Valencia
1983      Ph.D. (Genetics), University of Valencia

Major research interests

My research interests focus on the understanding of the evolution of living beings

Current research projects

• Evolutionary genomics of bacterial endosymbionts
• Genomics of human pathogens
• Metagenomics of human microbiome
• Experimental evolution and evolutionary epidemiology of RNA virus

Selected recent publications

Belda E, Silva FJ, Peretó J & Moya A. (2012). Metabolic networks of Sodalis glossinidius: A systems biology approach to reductive evolution. PLoS One 7, e30652.

Belda-Ferré P, Cabrera-Rubio R, Moya A & Mira A. (2011). Mining virulence genes using metagenomics. PLoS One 6, e24975

Bernet GP, Muñoz-Pomer A, Domínguez-Escribá L, Covelli L, Bernad L, Ramasamy S, Futami R, Sempere JM, Moya A & Llorens C. (2011). LTR retroelements and integrase-related transposons of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum genome. Mobile Genetic Elements 1, 97-102.

Delaye L, González-Domenech CM, Garcillán-Barcia MP, Peretó J, de la Cruz F & Moya A. (2011). Blueprint for a minimal photoautotrophic cell: conserved and variable genes in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. BMC Genomics 12, 25.

Delaye L & Moya A. (2011). Abundance and distribution of the highly iterated palindrome 1 (HIP1) among prokaryotes. Mobile Genetic Elements 1, 1-10.

Durbán A, Abellán JJ, Jiménez-Hernández N, Ponce M, Ponce J, Sala T, D’Auria G, Latorre A & Moya A. (2011). Assessing gut microbial diversity from feces and rectal mucosa. Microbial Ecology 61, 123-133.

Gosalbes MJ, Durbán A, Pignatelli M, Abellán JJ, Jiménez-Hernández N, Pérez-Cobas AE, Latorre A & Moya A. (2011). Metatranscriptomic approach to analyze the functional human gut microbiota. PLoS One 6, e17447.

Lamelas A, Gosalbes MJ, Moya A & Latorre A. (2011). New clues about the evolutionary history of metabolic losses in bacterial endosymbionts, provided by the genome of Buchnera aphidicola from the aphid Cinara tujafilina. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77, 4446-4454.

Llorens C, Futami R, Covelli L, Domínguez L, Viu JM, Tamarit D, Aguilar-Rodríguez J, Vicente-Ripollés VM, Fuster G, Bernet G, Maumus F, Muñoz-Pomer A, Sempere J, Latorre A & Moya A. (2011). The Gypsy Database (GyDB) of Mobile Genetic Elements: Release 2.0. Nucleic Acids Research 39 (Database Issue), D70-74. 2011.

Neef A, Latorre A, Peretó J, Silva FJ, Pignatelli M & Moya A. (2011). Genome economization in the endosymbiont of the wood roach Cryptocercus punctulatus due to drastic loss of amino acid synthesis capabilities. Genome Biology and Evolution 3, 1437-1448. 2011.

Pignatelli M & Moya A. (2011). Evaluating the fidelity of de novo short read metagenomic assembly using simulated data. PLoS One 6, e19984.

Editor-in-chief

The Open Evolution Journal

Associate Editor

Metagenomics

Editorial Board

Frontiers in Microbiology: Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
International Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Ludus Vitalis: Journal of Philosophy of Life Sciences
Mètode: Journal of Public Understanding of Science
Pasajes: Journal of Contemporary Thought
The Open Microbiology Journal
Trends in Evolutionary Biology

Courses taught

Evolution: Processes and Mechanisms (Biology Grade)

Foundations of Evolutionary Theory (Master in Integrative Evolutionary Biology)

Evolutionary Genetics Group (Cavanilles Institute)

Genomics and Health Area (CSISP)

Complete list of publications

Books

Mailing address

Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva
Universitat de València
C/ Catedrático José Beltrán 2
46980 Paterna (Valencia)
Spain

Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública
Avenida de Cataluña 21
46020 - Valencia
Spain