S. Carbonell Sala

I have an extensive experience in Molecular Biology and Genetics. I also worked in biotech companies and I have the global experience to understand both the scientific aspects and the future market and solutions for science. This led me to gain interdisciplinary knowledge. I graduated in Sanitary Biology at the University of Barcelona and afterwards, I performed my Ph.D. in Molecular Anthropology and Genetics at the University of Florence, defending a thesis in “Valuation of molecular methods for sex determination in ancient Etruscan skeletal remains (VII-III sec. A.C.)”. After my Ph.D., I decided to change to applied research and took a position in the biotech company M-Medical in Florence, first as a technician in their service labs (Oligo synthesis, Sanger sequencing, and PCR-based diagnostic kits set up) and then as a Field Application Specialist. After that experience, I decided to return to basic research and joined the Medicine Department at the University of Florence where I also acquired experience in genetic analysis of human diseases. In particular, I did my Post Doc on colon cancer progression and genetic markers of osteoporosis. Afterwards, I decided to move back to Barcelona where the scientific community and opportunities were better for my professional career. I joined the CEGEN at the Center for Genomic Regulation where I performed experimental planning and set up of genotyping and epigenetic methodologies. I joined the R&D team at CRG-CNAG in July 2010 first as a Lab Development Engineer and afterwards as a Staff Scientist, developing and implementing Next Generation Sequencing methodologies. During these 3 years and a half, I have implemented molecular biology techniques, worked on lab automation, and integrated process control assays. I also established and transferred several new methodologies to standard operating procedures. I won a Torres Quevedo fellowship and moved to qGenomics (A private genomics company for human health) where I joined the R&D team. For four years I was working on services and products based on –omic technologies as a Project Manager. During that period at qGenomics, I collaborated with the Roderic Guigo group to establish a protocol for RNA Capture-Long Seq (CLS), a newly developed methodology based on RNA capture coupled with PacBio long-read sequencing, for the GENCODE project. Finally, in February 2018 I joined Roderic Guigo Lab where I am sure that my diverse research experience and my previous collaboration make me a valuable member of the GENCODE project.