Cristian Miguel Cañestro Garcia

Cristian Miguel Cañestro Garcia

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0003-4623-8105
Scopus Author ID: 6602494249
Researcher ID: L-9661-2014
Knowledge area: Genètica

Membre del Consell Executiu de l'Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat de la UB
Membre de la Comissió del programa de doctorat de Genètica
Membre representant de la Secció de Genètica a la comissió de Recerca de la Facultat de Biologia de la UB

Research group: Evolució i Desenvolupament (Evo-Devo)

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Section of Genetics University of Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 643, edifici Prevosti, 2a planta
934021501
canestro(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Animal Transgenesis
Docencia Enginyeria Genètica Avançada (Grau de Bioquímica)
Teaching EvoDevo (Master of Genetics and Genomics)
Teaching of Genetic and Molecular Bases of Biotechnology (Master of Molecular Biotechnology)
Teaching of Advanced Techniques of Genetic Engeneering (Master of Genetics and Genomics)

Academic Training

Biologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 06/1996 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Biologia . Universitat de Barcelona (Dep. Genètica) . 20/12/2001 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Evolution by Gene Loss: deconstructing the mechanisms of heart development in chordates
Are embryos ready for climate change: genetic response of the defensome of marine embryos to biotoxins derived from diatom blooms
Population genomics of gene loss in appendicularian urochordates

Projects

Evolución por pérdida génica: Deconstruyendo la Red Génica Reguladora del Desarrollo del Corazón en un Cordado . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.BFU2016-80601-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Cristian Miguel Cañestro Garcia
Evolució i Desenvolupament (Evo-Devo) . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR1665 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Jordi Garcia Fernandez

Journal Publications

Braasch, I.; Gehrke, A.R.; Smith, J.J.; Kawasaki, K.; Manousaki, T.; Pasquier, J.; Amores, A.; Desvignes, T.; Batzel, P.; Catchen, J.; Berlin, A.M.; Campbell, M.S.; Barrell, D.; Martin, K.J.; Mulley, J.F.; Ravi, V.; Lee, A.P.; Nakamura, T.; Chalopin, D.; Fan, S.; Wcisel, D.; Cañestro, C.; Sydes, J.; Beaudry, F.E.; Sun, Y.; Hertel, J.; Beam, M.J.; Fasold, M.; Ishiyama, M.; Johnson, J.; Kehr, S.; Lara, M.; Letaw, J.H.; Litman, G.W.; Litman, R.T.; Mikami, M.; Ota, T.; Saha, N.R.; Williams, L.; Stadler, P.F.; Wang, H.; Taylor, J.S.; Fontenot, Q.; Ferrara, A.; Searle, S.M.; Aken, B.; Yandell, M.; Schneider, I.; Yoder, J.A.; Volff, J.N.; Meyer, A.; Amemiya, C.T.; Venkatesh, B.; Holland, P.W.; Guiguen, Y.; Bobe, J.; Shubin, N.H.; Di, Palma, F.; Alföldi, J.; Lindblad-Toh, K.; Postlethwait, J.H. (2016). The spotted gar genome illuminates vertebrate evolution and facilitates human-teleost comparisons. Nature Genetics, 48, pp. 427 - 437 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1061-4036
Marti-Solans, J.; Belyaeva, O.V.; Torres-Aguila, N.P.; Kedishvili, N.Y.; Albalat, R.; Cañestro, C. (2016). Co-elimination and survival in gene network evolution: dismantling the RA-signaling in a chordate. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(9), pp. 2401 - 2416 . https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw118 . ISSN: 0737-4038
Torres-Águila, NP.; Martí-Solans, J.; Ferrández-Roldán, A-; Almazán, A-; Roncalli, V.; D'Aniello, S.; Romano, G.; Palumbo, A.; Albalat, R.; Cañestro, C. (2018). Diatom bloom-derived biotoxins cause aberrant development and gene expression in the appendicularian chordate Oikopleura dioica. Communications Biology, 1(121) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2399-3642
Somorjai, I.M.L.; Martí-Solans, J.; Diaz-Gracia, M.; Nishida, H.; Imai, K.S.; Escrivà, H.; Cañestro, C.; Albalat, R. (2018). Wnt evolution and function shuffling in liberal and conservative chordate genomes. Genome Biology, 19, p. 98 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1474-7596
Almazán, A.; Ferrández-Roldán, A.; Albalat, R.; Cañestro C. (2019). Developmental atlas of appendicularian Oikopleura dioica actins provides new insights into the evolution of the notochord and the cardio-paraxial muscle in chordates. Developmental Biology, 448(2), pp. 260 - 270 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.09.003 . ISSN: 0012-1606
Cañestro, C.; Roncalli, V. (2018). Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains. eLife, 7(e41912) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2050-084X
Marlétaz, F.; Firbas, PN.; Maeso, I.; Tena, JJ.; Bogdanovic, O.; Perry, M.; Wyatt, CDR.; de la Calle-Mustienes, E.; Bertrand, S.; Burguera, D.; Acemel, RD.; van Heeringen, SJ.; Naranjo, S.; Herrera-Ubeda, C.; Skvortsova, K.; Jimenez-Gancedo, S.; Aldea, D.; Marquez, Y.; Buono, L.; Kozmikova, I.; Permanyer, J.; Louis, A.; Albuixech-Crespo, B.; Le Petillon, Y.; Leon, A.; Subirana, L.; Balwierz, PJ.; Duckett, PE.; Farahani, E.; Aury, JM.; Mangenot, S.; Wincker, P.; Albalat, R.; Benito-Gutiérrez, È.; Cañestro, C.; Castro, F.; D'Aniello, S.; Ferrier, DEK.; Huang, S.; Laudet, V.; Marais, GAB.; Pontarotti, P.; Schubert, M.; Seitz, H.; Somorjai, I.; Takahashi, T.; Mirabeau, O.; Xu, A.; Yu, JK.; Carninci, P.; Martinez-Morales, JR.; Crollius, HR.; Kozmik, Z.; Weirauch, MT.; Garcia-Fernàndez, J.; Lister, R.; Lenhard, B.; Holland, PWH.; Escriva, H.; Gómez-Skarmeta, JL.; Irimia, M. (2018). Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation. Nature, 564, pp. 64 - 70 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0028-0836
Ferrández-Roldán, A.; Martí-Solans, J.; Cañestro, C.; Albalat, R. (2019). Oikopleura dioica: An Emergent Chordate Model to Study the Impact of Gene Loss on the Evolution of the Mechanisms of Development. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, 68, pp. 63 - 105 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23459-1_4 . ISSN: 0080-1844
Denoeud F; Henriet S; Mungpakdee S; Aury JM; Da Silva C; Brinkmann H; Mikhaleva J; Olsen LC; Jubin C; Cañestro C; Bouquet JM; Danks G; Poulain J; Campsteijn C; Adamski M; Cross I; Yadetie F; Muffato M; Louis A; Butcher S; Tsagkogeorga G; Konrad A; Singh S; Jensen MF; Cong EH; Eikeseth-Otteraa H; Noel B; Anthouard V; Porcel BM; Kachouri-Lafond R; Nishino A; Ugolini M; Chourrout P; Nishida H; Aasland R; Huzurbazar S; Westhof E; Delsuc F; Lehrach H; Reinhardt R; Weissenbach J; Roy SW; Artiguenave F; Postlethwait JH; Manak R; Thompson EM; Jaillon O; Du Pasquier L; Boudinot P; Liberles DA; Volff JN; Philippe H; Lenhard B; Crollius HR; Wincker P; Chourrout D (2010). Plasticity of Animal Genome Architecture Unmasked by Rapid Evolution of a Pelagic Tunicate. Science, 330(6009), pp. 1381 - 1385 . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21097902 / http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6009/1381.short . ISSN: 0036-8075

Others Publications

Cañestro, C. (2012). Two Rounds of whole genome duplication: evidence and impact on the evolution of vertebrate innovations . In Polyploidy and genome evolution . (pp. 309 - 339) . Springer Verlag . ISBN: 978-3-642-31441-4 . http://www.springerlink.com/content/l7q4lu67x0422x37/ (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31442-1_16)

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