Alfonso Valencia
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Alfonso Valencia speaking at ISMB/ECCB 2013.
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| Academic advisors | Chris Sander |
Alfonso Valencia is a Spanish biologist, the current director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute and the Life Sciences department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación. As of 2015, he is also President of the International Society for Computational Biology. His research is focused on the study of protein families and their interaction networks.
Valencia studied biology at the Complutense University of Madrid, training in population genetics and biophysics. In 1987 he was a Visiting Scientist at the American Red Cross Laboratory. He received his PhD in molecular biology in 1988 from the Autonomous University of Madrid. From 1989 to 1994 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Chris Sander at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, studying the evolution of protein function using sequence- and structure-based approaches.
In 1994 Valencia formed the Protein Design Group at the Spanish National Center for Biotechnology (CNB). He was leader of the Structural and Computational Biology Group at CNIO. The research focus of this group is mainly on the understanding of how cancer progresses, using a combination of molecular and evolutionary approaches. The main research goals are to analyse the function and interactions of cancer-related proteins and to develop novel computational methods to analyse, represent and interpret cancer genome information. He is currently the Director of the Life Sciences Department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
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