Alejandro Sánchez Gracia

Alejandro Sánchez Gracia

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0003-4543-4577
Scopus Author ID: 24460922300
Researcher ID: F-4686-2014
Knowledge area: Genètica

Course director: Advanced course in Phylogenomics and Population Genomics: Inference and Applications

Research group: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Facultat de Biologia, Edifici Prevosti, Av. Diagonal 643
934035305
elsanchez(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution (EHEA bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics)
Bioinformatics (EHEA bachelor's degrees in Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Biomedical sciences)
Comparative Genomics (Master in Biodiversity and Master in Genetics and Genomics)
Evolution (EHEA bachelor's degree in Biology)
Genetics and Genomics (EHEA bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics)

Academic Training

Llicenciat . Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona . 1998 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Doctor . Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona . 2006 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Mechanistic insights into the evolution of Arthropod chemosensory gene families
Bioinformatics tools for evolutionary and population genomics
Population genomics of local adaptation in Drosophila

Projects

Application of RADseq and other promising genomic partitioning approaches to the study of biodiversity . 2017 - 2018 . Unión Iberoamericana de Universidades . PI: Julio Antonio Rozas Liras; Alejandro Sanchez Gracia
The genome of the Catalan blind scorpion . 2020 - 2021 . Ref.PRO2020-S02-ARNEDO . Institut d'Estudis Catalans . PI: Miguel Angel Arnedo Lombarte; Julio Antonio Rozas Liras; Alejandro Sanchez Gracia
Genómica poblacional de la adaptación poligénica en gradientes altitudinales . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-113168GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Alejandro Sanchez Gracia

Journal Publications

Joel Vizueta; Alejandro Sánchez‐Gracia; Julio Rozas (2020). Bitacora: A comprehensive tool for the identification and annotation of gene families in genome assemblies. Molecular Ecology Resources, 20(5), pp. 1445 - 1452 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1755-098X
Vizueta, Joel; Macias-Hernandez, Nuria; Arnedo, Miguel A.; Rozas, Julio; Sanchez-Gracia, Alejandro (2019). Chance and predictability in evolution: The genomic basis of convergent dietary specializations in an adaptive radiation. Molecular Ecology, 28(17), pp. 4028 - 4045 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0962-1083
Vizueta, J.; Rozas, J.; Sánchez Gracia, A. (2018). Comparative genomics reveals thousands of novel chemosensory genes and massive changes in chemoreceptor repertories across chelicerates. Genome Biology and Evolution, 10(5), pp. 1221 - 1236 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1759-6653
Rozas, J.; Ferrer-Mata, A.; Sánchez-DelBarrio, J.C.; Guirao-Rico, S.; Librado, P.; Ramos-Onsins, S.E.; Sánchez-Gracia, A. (2017). Dnasp 6: DNA sequence polymorphism analysis in large data sets. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(12), pp. 3299 - 3302 . https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx248 . ISSN: 0737-4038
Vizueta, J.; Frías-López, C.; Macías-Hernández, N.; Arnedo, M.A.; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Rozas, J. (2017). Evolution of chemosensory gene families in arthropods: Insight from the first inclusive comparative transcriptome analysis across spider appendages. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9(1), pp. 178 - 196 . https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw296 . ISSN: 1759-6653
Guirao-Rico, S.; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Charlesworth, D. (2017). Sequence diversity patterns suggesting balancing selection in partially sex-linked genes of the plant Silene latifolia are not generated by demographic history or gene flow. Molecular Ecology, 26(5), pp. 1357 - 1370 . https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13969 . ISSN: 0962-1083
Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Castresana, J. (2012). Impact of Deep Coalescence on the Reliability of Species Tree Inference from Different Types of DNA Markers in Mammals. PLoS One, 7(1), pp. 1 - 9 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Romero-Pozuelo, J.; Ferrús, A. (2010). Two Frequenins in Drosophila: unveiling the evolutionary history of an unusual Neuronal Calcium Sensor (NCS) duplication. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10(54) . https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-54 . ISSN: 1471-2148
Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Vieira, F. G.; Rozas, J. (2009). Molecular evolution of the major chemosensory gene families in insects. Heredity, 103, pp. 208 - 216 . ISSN: 0018-067X
Sanchez-Gracia, A.; Maside, X.; Charlesworth, B. (2005). High rate of horizontal transfer of transposable elements in drosophila. Trends in Genetics . ISSN: 0168-9525

Others Publications

Rozas, J., Sánchez-Gracia, A. (2014). Analysis of Genetic Variation and Intraspecific Phylogenies . In The Tree of Life. Vargas, P. and Zardoya, R. (eds.) . Sinauer Associates, Inc. .
Rozas, J.; Sánchez-Gracia, A.; Vieira, F. G. (2009). Evolución molecular y adaptación en las familias multigénicas del sistema quimiorreceptor de los insectos . In Evolución y Adaptación. 150 años después del Origen de las Especies. Eds. Dopazo, H. y Navarro, A. Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva. . (pp. 41 - 49) . Obrapropia . ISBN: 978-84-92910-06-9 .

Relevant Activities

Member of the European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
Member of the Genomics of Adaptation network, AdaptNET

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