Prof. Roderic Guigó is the coordinator of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme in the Center of Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, and professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Pompeu Fabra.
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He obtained his PhD from the University of Barcelona, where he worked in the development of mathematical and computer models in Population Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology. Then, he conducted postdoctoral research in Computational Genomics with Temple F. Smith at Harvard and Boston Universities, and with James W. Fickett at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (US). During these years, he was involved in several projects in the field of sequence analysis: gene identification, automatic knowledge extraction from bio-sequence databases, protein sequence pattern analysis, and molecular evolution. In 1994-1999 he joined the City Institute for Medical Research (IMIM) in Barcelona as a researcher and professor at the University of Barcelona.
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Guigo's main research interests are in understanding and modelling the regulated production of RNA in eukaryotic cells. Author of over 180 publications, he is a leading scientist in the field of Computational Genomics, working towards improving methods for interpreting the information encoded in our genome while developing new computational methods for genome analysis.
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He is a member of advisory boards of many Bioinformatics and Genomics institutions, including the European Bioinformatics Institute. He participated in the Human Genome Project, as well as in many other genomic and functional genomics projects, such as ENCODE, GTEx, BluePrint and GA4GH.