Jesús Lozano Fernández

Jesús Lozano Fernández

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-3597-1221
Scopus Author ID: 57189851146
Researcher ID: H-3704-2016
Knowledge area: Genètica

Honorary Researcher at the University of Bristol

Research group:

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics. Faculty of Biology. Av. Diagonal 643. Edifici Prevosti

jesus.lozano(a)ub.edu

Teaching

The Tree of life
Bioinformatics
Genetics: Genetic Analysis

Academic Training

Biodiversity . Universitat de Barcelona . 04/12/2014 . (Ph.D.)
Economics and Business Administration . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . 2015 . (Official Master)
Biodiversity . Universitat de Barcelona . 2009 . (Official Master)
Certificat d'Aptitud Pedagògica . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . 2008 . (Specialized Training)

Research interests

Arthropod terrestrialization and chelicerate phylogenomics
Ecdysozoa evolution
Development and application of phylogenomic methods and divergence time estimation (molecular clocks)
Invertebrate palaeobiology
Animal evolution in Deep Time

Projects

A molecular palaeobiological approach to understand Onychophora terrestrialization: assessing the impact of fossils . 2017 - 2020 . Ref.PA-RG201701 . The Palaeontological Association . PI: Jesús Lozano Fernández
Molecular palaeobiology and comparative genomics of chelicerate terrestrialisation . 2015 - 2017 . Ref.655814 . Unió Europea . PI: Jesús Lozano Fernández
CBP PycnoGenome: Iniciativa per generar un genoma de referència d'una aranya de mar (Pycnogonida) . 2023 - 2024 . Institut d'estudis catalans - Xarxa CRUSCAT . PI: Jesús Lozano Fernández
Assoliment de competències transversals com treball en equip i ètica mitjançant un curs pràctic en modificació genètica . 2023 - 2026 . Ref.2023PID-UB/009 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Jesús Lozano Fernández
Los primeros animales terrestres: Evaluando la terrestrialización de quelicerados a través de macrosintenia, filogenómica y expresióngénica . 2023 - 2025 . Ref.CNS2022-135805 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Jesús Lozano Fernández

Journal Publications

Howard, R.J.; Giacomelli, M.; Lozano-Fernandez, J.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Fleming, J.F.; Kristensen, R.M.; Ma, X.; Olesen, J.; Sørensen, M.V.; Thomsen, P.F.; Wills, M.A.; Donoghue, P.C.J.; Pisani, D. (2022). The Ediacaran Origin of Ecdysozoa: Integrating Fossil and Phylogenomic Data. Journal of the Geological Society, 179(4), pp. 1 - 14 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0016-7649
Adrian Serrano, Silvia; Lozano-Fernandez, Jesus; Pons, Joan; Rozas, Julio; Arnedo, Miquel A. (2020). On the shoulder of giants: Mitogenome recovery from non-targeted genome projects for phylogenetic inference and molecular evolution studies. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59(1), pp. 5 - 30 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0947-5745
Howard, R.J.; Puttick, M.N.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Lozano-Fernandez, J. (2020). Arachnid monophyly: Morphological, palaeontological and molecular support for a single terrestrialization within Chelicerata. Arthropod Structure & Development, 59(100997) . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2020.100997 . ISSN: 1467-8039
Tihelka, E.; Cai, C.; Giacomelli, M.; Lozano-Fernandez, J.; Rota-Stabelli, O.; Huang, D.; Engel, M.S.; Donoghue, P.C.; Pisani, D. (2021). The evolution of insect biodiversity. Current Biology, 31(19), pp. R1299 - R1311 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.057 . ISSN: 0960-9822
Lozano-Fernandez, J.; Tanner, A.R.; Puttick, M.N.; Vinther, J.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Pisani, D. (2020). A Cambrian-Ordovician terrestrialization of arachnids. Frontiers In Genetics, 11, p. 182 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.00182 . ISSN: 1664-8021
Lozano Fernandez, Jesus; Giacomelli, Mattia; Fleming, James F.; Chen, Albert; Vinther, Jakob; Thomsen, Philip Francis; Glenner, Henrik; Palero, Ferran; Legg, David A.; Iliffe, Thomas M.; Pisani, Davide; Olesen, Jørgen (2019). Pancrustacean evolution illuminated by taxon-rich genomic-scale data sets with an expanded remipede sampling. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(8), pp. 2055 - 2070 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1759-6653
Lozano-Fernandez, J.; Tanner, A.R.; Giacomelli, M.; Carton, R.; Vinther, J.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Pisani, D. (2019). Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida. Nature Communications, 10(1), pp. 1 - 8 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2041-1723
Howard, R.J.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Legg, D.A.; Pisani, D.; Lozano-Fernandez, J., (2018). Exploring the evolution and terrestrialization of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) with rocks and clocks. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 19(1), pp. 71 - 86 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-019-00390-7 . ISSN: 1439-6092
Lozano-Fernandez, J.; Dos Reis, M.; Donoghue, P.C.J:; Pisani, D. (2017). RelTime rates collapse to a strict clock when estimating the timeline of animal diversification. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9(5), pp. 1320 - 1328 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1759-6653
Lozano-Fernandez, J.; Carton, R.; Tanner, A.R.; Puttick, M.N.; Blaxter, M.; Vinther, J.; Olesen, J.; Giribet, G.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Pisani, D. (2016). A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1699), p. 20150133 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0133 . ISSN: 0962-8436

Others Publications

Zardoya, R.; Riesgo Gil, A.; Acinas, S.G.; Arribas, P.; Devos, D.P.; Fernández, R.; Gómez Reyes, J.M.; González Grau, J.M.; Lozano, J.; Ortego, J.; Milá, B. (2020). The tree of life: intertwining genomics and evolution . In https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/230676/3/tree_lif_intertwining_genomics_evolution_73-91_%20%282021%29.pdf .

Relevant Activities

Review Editor Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Editorial board Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica
Instructor at the postgraduate course on 'Phylogenomics and Population Genomics: Inference and Applications'
Best young researcher award by The Catalan Society for Biology
Accèssit prize of the 20th Doctors' Senate Award of the UB

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