Alejandro Jiménez González
Postdoctoral position at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Molecular Evolution
- E-mail:
- alejandro.jimenez@icm.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Husargatan 3
752 37 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 596
751 24 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-3493-4154
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Short presentation
I am an enthusiastic postdoc with over nine years of experience in genome-scale metabolic reconstruction and phylogenetic analyses in microorganisms. I am interested in describing the metabolism of organisms and how this relates to the environment where they are found.
Keywords
- bioinformatics
- comparative genomics
- evolution
- evolutionary genetics
- genome-scale metabolic reconstruction
- horizontal gene transfer
- lateral gene transfer
- metabolism
- phylogenetics
Publications
Selection of publications
- A chromosome-scale reference genome for Spironucleus salmonicida (2022)
- Stolen genes, a shortcut to success (2020)
- Metabolic reconstruction elucidates the lifestyle of the last Diplomonadida common ancestor (2020)
- The compact genome of Giardia muris reveals important steps in the evolution of intestinal protozoan parasites (2020)
- Lateral Acquisitions Repeatedly Remodel the Oxygen Detoxification Pathway in Diplomonads and Relatives (2019)
Recent publications
- Giardia intestinalis thymidine kinase is a high-affinity enzyme crucial for DNA synthesis and an exploitable target for drug discovery (2022)
- A chromosome-scale reference genome for Spironucleus salmonicida (2022)
- Stolen genes, a shortcut to success (2020)
- Metabolic reconstruction elucidates the lifestyle of the last Diplomonadida common ancestor (2020)
- The compact genome of Giardia muris reveals important steps in the evolution of intestinal protozoan parasites (2020)
All publications
Articles
- Giardia intestinalis thymidine kinase is a high-affinity enzyme crucial for DNA synthesis and an exploitable target for drug discovery (2022)
- A chromosome-scale reference genome for Spironucleus salmonicida (2022)
- Metabolic reconstruction elucidates the lifestyle of the last Diplomonadida common ancestor (2020)
- The compact genome of Giardia muris reveals important steps in the evolution of intestinal protozoan parasites (2020)
- Lateral Acquisitions Repeatedly Remodel the Oxygen Detoxification Pathway in Diplomonads and Relatives (2019)
- Mapping transcriptomics and proteomics data onto a metabolic pathway model of fructophilic lactic acid bacteria
- Origin and evolution of key enzymes in the anammox pathway revisited
- Horizontal Gene Transfer Events Shaped the Heme Biosynthesis Pathway in the Anammox Bacteria
Books
