Andrés Moya

Unidad Mixta de Investigación en Genómica y Salud del Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública (CSISP)-Universitat de València (Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva)

e-mail: andres.moya@uv.es
 e-mail: moya_and@gva.es

phone: +34 96 354 3480 (UVEG)
phone: +34 96 192 5951 (CSISP)

Position

  • Professor of Genetics (UVEG)
  • Scientific Director, 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
  • Microbiome in eukaryotes

Selected recent publications

  • F. Baquero, and A. Moya (2012). Intelligibility in microbial complex systems: Wittgenstein and the score of life. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00088.

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

  • A. Durbán, J.J. Abellán, N. Jiménez-Hernández, A. Latorre, and A. Moya (2012). Daily follow-up of bacterial communities in the human gut reveals stable composition and host-specific patterns of interaction. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 81:427-437.

  • A. Durbán, J.J. Abellán, N. Jiménez-Hernández, P. Salgado, M. Ponce, J. Ponce, V. Garrigues, A. Latorre, and A. Moya (2012). Structural alterations of faecal and mucosa-associated bacterial communities in irritable bowel syndrome. Environmental Microbiology Reports 4:242-247.

  • M. Dzunkova, G. D’Auria, D. Pérez-Villarroya, and A. Moya (2012). Hybrid sequencing approach applied to human fecal metagenomic clone libraries revealed clones with potential biotechnological applications. PLoS One 7:e47654.

  • R. García-López, V. Pérez-Brocal, J. Diez-Domingo, and A. Moya. (2012). Gut microbiota in children vaccinated with rotavirus vaccines. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 31:1300-1302.

  • M.J. Gosalbes, J.J. Abellán, A Durbán, A.E. Pérez-Cobas, A. Latorre, and A. Moya (2012). Metagenomics of human microbiome: beyond the 16S rDNA. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 18 (Suppl. 4):47-49.

  • C. Llorens, G.P. Bernet, S. Ramasamy, C. Feschotte, and A. Moya (2012). On the transposon origins of mammalian SCAND3 and KRBA2, two zinc-finger genes carrying an integrase/transposase domain. Mobile Genetic Elements 2:1-6.

  • A. Moya (2012). Minimal cells and reducible complexity. Edit by R. Kolter and S. Maloy in Microbial Evolution 150 years after the Origin of Species, pp. 17-23. ASM Press.

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Courses taught

  • Biology (Grade in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences)
  • Evolution (Master in Bioinformatics)
  • Conceptual Foundations of Evolution (Master in Integrative Evolutionary Biology)

Scientific Societies

  • President of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology (SESBE)

 

 

Complete list of publications

Books

 

Evolutionary Genetics Group (Cavanilles Institute)

Genomics and Health Area (CSISP)

 

 

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