Alicia L. Bruzos

EDUCATION
2016 – 2021*. PhD. in Molecular Medicine, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Expected for Sep/Dec 2021. *expected
2015 – 2016. MSc. in Bioinformatics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
2011 – 2015. BSc. in Biology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

LANGUAGES
English (C1 – CAE certification in December 2014)
French (B2 – DELF certification in May 2020)
Galician (C1 – Celga certification in July 2011)
Spanish (native)

PUBLICATIONS
1 Nature, 1 Nature Genetics, 1 Elife (under review, first author), 1 Nature Communications (under review).

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS (last 10 years)
2021. Travel grant. Boheringer Ingelheim Fonds, Germany.
2020. Award IDEAX21 - International Creative Jam. Xunta de Galicia, Spain.
2019. Best Scientific Panel Prize. XXII Foro dos Recursos Mariños e da Acuicultura das Rías Galegas, Spain.
2017. EuroMarine Young Scientist Fellowship (EYSF2017). European Marine Research Network.
2017. Best Scientific Panel Prize. XX Foro dos Recursos Mariños e Acuicultura das Rías Galegas, Spain. First place.
2017. PhD fellowship (FPI, 2017-2021). Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity (Ref. BES-2016-078166). Universidade de Vigo, Spain.
2015. National Speech Competition: “Transmito, luego existo”. Finalist.
2013. Erasmus Scholarship. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
2013. Open Software Translation Award. Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñaría (ETSE). First place.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (last 5 years)
2021 "Unravelling the genetic story of marine contagious metastases" CIBIO-InBIO Seminar Series on Biodiversity and Evolution. University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
2019 "Scuba Cancers: Finding the genetic causes of contagious metastases under the sea" Evolution and Ecology of Cancer. Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton-Cambridge (UK).
2017 "Finding the genetic causes of contagious metastases under the sea" Assemblée Générale EMBRC-France. EMBRC, Bannyuls-sur-mer (France).

RESEARCH STAYS
2021. Korea Advance Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (South Korea). Visiting researcher. Advisor: Prof. Young Seok Ju. Theme: Analyzing expression and cell origin using RNA-seq data. Funded by a travel grant of Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds from January to April.
2020. University of Vigo (UVIGO), Vigo (Spain). Visiting researcher. Advisor: Prof. David Posada. Theme: Phylogenetic inference of mitogenomes, topology testing, dNdS per branch and time estimations. From September to December.
2019. National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), Galway (Ireland). Visiting researcher. Advisor: Prof. Mark Johnson. Theme: Studying the clonal structure of contagious cancers in Irish cockles. Funded by AssemblePlus (grant agreement no. 730984) form March to April.
2018. Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI), Seattle (USA). Visiting researcher. Advisor: PhD. Michael Metzger. Theme: Gene editing of bivalve genomes using CRISPR. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science (Ref. BES-2016-078166) from September to December.