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

J.M. Cuevas, M. Gonzalez, M. Torres-Puente, N. Jimenez-Hernández, M.A. Bracho, I. García-Robles, F. González-Candelas, and A. Moya
The role of positive selection in hepatitis C virus
Infection, Genetics and Evolution 9:860-866. 2009.

J.M. Cuevas, F. González-Candelas, A. Moya, and R. Sanjuán
The effect of ribavirin on the mutation rate and spectrum of Hepatitis C virus in vivo
Journal of Virology 83:5760-5764. 2009.

J.M. Cuevas, A. Moya, and R. Sanjuán
A genetic background with low mutational robustness is associated with increased adaptability to a novel host in an RNA virus.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:2041-2048. 2009.

J.M. Cuevas, M. Torres-Puente, N. Jiménez-Hernández, M.A. Bracho, I. García-Robles, F. Carnicer, J. del Olmo, E. Ortega, F. González-Candelas, and A. Moya
Combined therapy of interferon plus ribavirin promotes multiple adaptive-solutions in hepatitis C virus.
Journal of Medical Virology 81:650-656. 2009.

J. Delás, M. Notari, J. Forés, J. Pechuan, M. Porcar, E. Navarro, A. Montagud, M. Baguena, J. Peretó, P. Fernández de Córdoba, M.M. González-Barroso, E. Rial, A. Moya, and J. Urchueguía
Yeast cultures with UCP1 uncoupling activity as a heating device
New Biotechnology 26:300-306. 2009.

P. Domingo-Calap, V. Sentandreu, M.A. Bracho, F. González-Candelas, A. Moya, and R. Sanjuán
Unequal distribution of RT-PCR artifacts along the E1-E2 region of hepatitis C virus
Journal of Virological Methods 16:136-140. 2009.

Ch. Liang, A. Schmid, M.J. López-Sánchez, A. Moya, R. Gross, J. Bernhardt and T. Dandekar.
JANE: Efficient mapping of prokaryotic ESTs and short sequence reads on related template genome
BMC Bioinformatics. 10:391. 2009.

A. López-Bueno, J. Tamames, D. Velázquez, A. Moya, A. Quesada, and A. Alcamí
High diversity of a viral community from an antarctic lake
Science 326:858-861. 2009.

M. López-Sánchez, A. Neef, J. Peretó, R. Patiño-Navarrete, M. Pignatelli, A. Latorre, and A. Moya
Evolutionary convergence and nitrogen metabolism in Blatttabacterium strain Bge, primary endosymbiont of the cockroach Battella germanica.
PLoS Genetics. 5:e1000721. 2009.

V. Lourenço, A. Moya, F. González-Candelas, I Carbone, L.A. Maffia, and E. Mizubuti.
Molecular diversity and evolutionary processes of Alternaria solani in Brazil inferred using genealogical and coalescent approaches.
Phytopathology 99:765-774. 2009.

C. Llorens, R. Futami, G. Renaud, and A. Moya
Bioinformatic pipeline and database to investigate the origins and diversity of clan AA peptidases
Biology Direct 4:3. 2009.

C. Lloréns, A. Muñoz-Pomer, L. Bernad, H. Botella, and A. Moya
Network dynamics of eukaryotic LTR retroelements beyond phylogenetic trees
Biology Direct 4:41. 2009.

M. Martínez y A. Moya
Selección natural, creatividad y causalidad
Teorema XXVIII:71-94. 2009.

A. Moya
Las peligrosas ideas de Darwin
Teorema XXVIII:5-13. 2009.

A. Moya
Biología de la vida y la conciencia: a propósito de Darwin
Ludus Vitalis XVII:385-394. 2009.

A. Moya, R. Gil, and A. Latorre
The evolutionary history of symbiotic association among bacteria and its animal host: a model
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 15 Suppl. 1:11-13. 2009.

A. Moya, R. Gil, A. Latorre, J. Peretó, M.P. Garcillán-Barcia, F. de la Cruz.
Towards minimal bacterial cells: evolution versus design.
FEMS Microbiology Reviews 33:225-235. 2009.

A. Moya, N. Krasnogor, J. Peretó, and A. Moya.
Goethe's dream. Synthetic biology's challenges and opportunities.
EMBO reports 10 Suppl 1:S28-S32. 2009.

M. Pignatelli, A. Moya, and J. Tamames.
envDB reveals environmental distribution of prokaryotic taxa.
Environmental Microbiology Reports 1:191-197. 2009.

M. Pignatelli, F. Serras, A. Moya, R. Guigó, and M. Corominas
CROC: Finding chromosomal clusters in eukaryotic genomes
Bioinformatics 25:1552-1553. 2009.

A. Moya
La domesticación de la naturaleza: de la artificialización a la intervención
Endoxa 24:291-310. 2010.

A. Novais, I. Comas, F. González-Candelas, R. Cantón, T. Coque, A. Moya, F. Baquero, and J.C. Galán
Predicting antibiotic resistance: evolutionary trajectories of beta-lactamase CTX-M-1 cluster enzymes.
PLoS Pathogens 6:e1000735. 2010.

Editor-in-chief

The Open Evolution Journal

Editorial Board

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

Courses taught

Introduction to Evolutionary Theory (for undergraduates in Biology)
Comparative Genomics (graduate program in ‘Biodiversity: Conservation and Evolution’ and ‘Molecular Biology and Genetics’)

Evolutionary Genetics Group (Cavanilles Institute)

Genomics and Health Area (CSISP)

Mailing address

Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva
Universitat de València
Apartado Postal 22085
46071 - Valencia
Spain

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