Esteban Vegas Lozano

Esteban Vegas Lozano

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-6869-4075
Knowledge area: Estadística i Investigació Operativa

Grup de recerca en Bioestadística i Bioinformàtica (GRBIO)

Teaching Innovation Groups: IP Statmedia

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Avda. Diagonal, 643
934020948
evegas(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Ciencias Biológicas . Universidad de Barcelona . 09/07/1986 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Ciencias Biológicas . Universidad de Barcelona . 13/09/1996 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Estadistica computacional y tecnicas de reducción de la varianza
Estadística y bioinformàtica
Machine Learning / Deep Learning aplicado a datos biomédicos

Projects

Metabotipos basados en la dieta y el microbioma para determinar el riesgo cardiometabólico y adaptar estrategias de intervención para mejorar la salud . 2017 - 2020 . Ref.PCIN-2017-076 . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Maria Cristina Andres Lacueva
Diseño de herramientas biotecnológicas para el desarrollo de componentes de microdispositivos biodegradables . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.CTQ2017-84966-C2-2-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Maria Pilar Diaz Lucea
Grup de recerca en Bioestadística i Bioinformàtica (GRBIO) . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR622 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Guadalupe Gomez Melis
Cook2Health . 2019 - 2019 . Ref.19532 . Unió Europea . PI: Maria Cristina Andres Lacueva
HDHL-INTIMIC (METADIS)Calidad de carbohidratos adaptada para control de peso personalizado y salud metabólica . 2020 - 2022 . Ref.AC19/00111 . Instituto de Salud Carlos III . PI: Maria Cristina Andres Lacueva

Journal Publications

Reverter, F.; Vegas, E.; Oller, J.M. (2014). Kernel-PCA data integration with enhanced interpretability. BMC Systems Biology, 8(S2)(s6), pp. 1 - 9 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1752-0509
Cantó, E.; Garcia Planella, E.; Zamora-Atenza, C.; Nieto, J.C.; Gordillo, J.; Ortiz, M.A.; Metón, I.; Serrano, E.; Vegas, E.; García-Bosch, O.; Juárez, C.; Vidal, S. (2014). Interleukin-19 impairment in active Crohn's disease patients. PLoS One, 9(4), p. e93910 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Aso, E.; Sánchez-Pla, A.; Vegas-Lozano, E.; Maldonado, R.; Ferrer, I. (2015). Cannabis-based medicine reduces multiple pathological processes in AβPP/PS1 mice. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 43(3), pp. 977 - 991 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1387-2877
Armand-Ugón, M.; Aso, E.; Moreno, J.; Riera-Codina, M.; Sánchez-Pla, A.; Vegas-Lozano, E.; Ferrer, I. (2015). Memory improvement in the A PP/PS1 mouse model of familial Alzheimer's disease induced by carbamylated-erythropoietin is accompanied by modulation of synaptic genes. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 45(2), pp. 407 - 421 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1387-2877
Vegas, E.; Oller, J.M.; Reverter, F. (2016). Inferring differentially expressed pathways using kernel maximum mean discrepancy-based test. BMC Bioinformatics, 17(s5), pp. 399 - 405 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1471-2105
Álvarez-Álvarez, MM.; Carreras-Torres, R.; Zanetti, D.; Vegas, E.; Moral P. (2016). Population variation of LIN28B in the Mediterranean: Novel markers for microgeographic discrimination. American Journal of Human Biology, 28(6), pp. 905 - 912 . https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22887 . ISSN: 1042-0533
Reverter, F.; Vegas, E.; Oller, J.M. (2018). Kernel conditional Embeddings for associating omic data types. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10813 LNBI, pp. 501 - 510 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0302-9743
Sanz, H.; Valim, C.; Vegas, E.; Oller, J.M.; Reverter, F. (2018). SVM-RFE: selection and visualization of the most relevant features through non-linear kernels. BMC Bioinformatics, 19, p. 432 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1471-2105
Madrid-Gambin, F.; Garcia-Aloy, M.; Vázquez-Fresno, R.; Vegas-Lozano, E.;, Sánchez-Pla, A.; Misawa, K.; Hase, T.; Shimotoyodome, A.; Andres-Lacueva, C. (2018). Metabolic signature of a functional high-catechin tea after acute and sustained consumption in healthy volunteers through 1H NMR-based metabolomics analysis of urine. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 67(11), pp. 3118 - 3124 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0021-8561
Diez-Hermano, S.; Ganfornina, M.D.; Vegas-Lozano, E.; Sanchez, D. (2020). Machine Learning representation of loss of eye regularity in a drosophila neurodegenerative model. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, p. 516 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1662-4548

Others Publications

Sánchez-Algarra, P., Vegas, E., Reverter, F. (2005). Métodos estadísticos aplicados . Publicacions i Edicions UB .
Oliva, Francesc; Vegas, Esteban; Civit, Sergi; Garrido, Teresa; Fraile, Josep; Munné, Antoni (2015). Trend Assessment for Groundwater Pollutants: A Brief Review and Some Remarks . In Experiences from Ground, Coastal and Transitional Water Quality Monitoring: The EU Water Framework Directive Implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part II). The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry . (pp. 1 - 38) . Springer Verlag . ISBN: 978-3-319-23903-3 . http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/698_2015_407#