Andrés Pérez-Figueroa

A biologist that prefers dealing with code bugs rather than live bugs.

Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR)

Hi! I’m Andrés Pérez-Figueroa, a postdoctoral researcher in the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR) in Portugal. My current research here aims to decipher the adaptive forces in cancer evolution acting at the ultimate level of resolution, the single-cell. My background is related to conservation and population genetics as a computational biologist. I can write code (not very well) to simulate and analyze biological data for understanding its evolutionary implications.

Interests

population genetics
cancer
genetic diversity
conservation genetics
epigenetic differentiation
quantitative genetics
data science

Education

PhD in Genetics, 2005

University of Vigo
MSc in Biology, 2002

University of Vigo
BSc in Biology, 2000

University of Vigo

Recent Publications

Click here for my full list of publications.

Suarez-Bregua, P., Pérez-Figueroa, A., Hernández-Urcera, J., Morán, P., Rotllant, J. (2020). Temperature-independent genome-wide DNA methylation profile in turbot post-embryonic development. Journal of Thermal Biology, 102483.

PDF DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.102483

López-Cortegano, E., Pouso, R., Labrador, A., Pérez-Figueroa, A., Fernández, J., Caballero, A. (2019). Optimal management of genetic diversity in subdivided populations. Frontiers in Genetics, 10:843.

PDF Code DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00843

Dueñas, M., Pérez-Figueroa, A., Oliveira, C., Suárez-Cabrera, C., Souza, A., Oliveira, P., Villacampa, F., Paramio, J.M., Martínez-Fernández, M. (2019). Gene Expression Analyses in Non Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Reveals a Role for Alternative Splicing and Tp53 Status. Scientific Reports, 9:10362.

PDF DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46652-4

López-Cortegano, E., Pérez-Figueroa, A., Caballero, A. (2019). Metapop2: re‐implementation of software for the analysis and management of subdivided populations using gene and allelic diversity. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19, 1095-1100.

PDF Code DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13015

Romero, M.R., Pérez-Figueroa, A., Carrera, M., Swanson, W.J., Skibinski, D.O.F., Diz, A.P. (2019). RNA-seq coupled to proteomic analysis reveals high sperm proteome variation between two closely related marine mussel species. Journal of Proteomics, 192:169-187.

PDF DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2018.08.020

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Code

Software and scripts that I have developed

msap: An R package for analyse epigenetic and genetic diversity and differentiation in MSAP assays.
METAPOP2: A new development of Metapop, A software for the management and analysis of subdivided populations in conservation programs. Currently being developed by Eugenio López-Cortegano.

Explore my git repositories: or my Docker Hub repository:

Contact

Do you need to contact me about…

a program or piece of software I wrote?
Please use the issue tracker in the corresponding code repository (if availiable)
an important and urgent request?
Please use Telegram ( anpefi) or Skype me ( andres.perez.figueroa).
send any present (I love stickers! please send me free stickers!) to me?
Please send it to my postal address:
CIIMAR. Terminal de Cruzeiros de Leixões.
Av. General Norton de Matos s/n.
4450-208 Matosinhos. Portugal
any other question?
andres.perez.figueroa@gmail.com [preferred]
afigueroa@ciimar.up.pt