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
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