Juan Moles Sanchez

Juan Moles Sanchez

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-4511-4055
Scopus Author ID: 55918686600
Researcher ID: H-4786-2018
Knowledge area: Zoologia

Research group: GRC Sistemàtica i Evolució Zoològica (ZooSysEvo)

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Facultat de Biologia, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona
93 402 21441
juan.moles(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Zoology
Marine Zoology

Academic Training

Biologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 10/08/2010 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Biodiversitat . Universitat de Barcelona . 23/09/2016 . (Ph.D.)
Biodiversitat . Universitat de Barcelona . 10/10/2011 . (Official Master)
Postdoc . Harvard University . 30/12/2019 . (Specialized Training)
Postdoc . Bavarian State Collection of Zoology . 17/10/2021 . (Specialized Training)

Research interests

Ecology of Antarctic benthic invertebrates
Systematics and taxonomy of heterobranchs
Marine invertebrate phylogenomics

Projects

Putnam Expedition Grant . 2019 - 2019 . Ref.PUTNAM-17/10/2018 . Harvard University . PI: Juan Moles Sanchez
Humboldt Research Fellowship . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.3.3-ESP-1195812-HFST-P . Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung . PI: Juan Moles Sanchez
BLUEBIO: Bioactive marine natural products in our environmentally changing planet . 2017 - 2019 . Ref.CTM2013-42667/ANT . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Conxita Avila
Adaptabilidad genética de las especies marinas en gradientes naturales análogos a los océanos del futuro . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.DIVERGEN . Fundación Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) . PI: Rocio Perez Portela
Heterobranchia Genomics 1000 A Thousand Species: All-Family Phylogeny of the Largest Gastropod Subclass . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.PID2021-127037NA-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Juan Moles Sanchez

Journal Publications

Moles, J.; Avila, C.; MalaquIas, M.A.E. (2019). Unmasking Antarctic cryptic lineages: novel evidence from philinoid snails (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea). Cladistics, 35, pp. 487 - 513 . https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12364 . ISSN: 0748-3007
Fernández-Vilert R; Giribet G; Salvador X; Moles J (2021). Títol: Assessing the systematics of Tylodinidae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Umbraculida) in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic Ocean: resurrecting Tylodina rafinesquii Philippi, 1836. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 87, p. eyaa03 . ISSN: 0260-1230
Moles J, Giribet G (2021). A polyvalent and universal tool for genomic studies in gastropod molluscs (Heterobranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 155, p. 106996 . ISSN: 1055-7903
Rossi, M.E.; Avila, C.; Moles, J. (2021). Orange is the new white: taxonomic revision of Tritonia species (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) from the Weddell Sea and Bouvet Island. Polar Biology, 44, pp. 559 - 573 . ISSN: 0722-4060
Moles, J.; Derkarabetian, S.; Schiaparelli, S.; Schrödl, M.; Troncoso, J.S.; Wilson, N.G.; Giribet, G. (2021). An approach using ddRADseq and machine learning for understanding speciation in Antarctic Antarctophilinidae gastropods. Scientific Reports, 11, p. 8473 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322
Moles, J.; Cunha, T.J.; Lemer, S.; Combosch, D.J.; Giribet, G. (2021). Tightening the girdle: phylotranscriptomics of Polyplacophora. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 87, p. eyab019 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab019 . ISSN: 0260-1230
Moles, J.; Berning, M.I.; Hooker, Y.; Padula, V.; Wilson, N.G.; Schrödl, M. (2021). Due South: The evolutionary history of Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic Tritoniidae nudibranchs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 162, p. 107209 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107209 . ISSN: 1055-7903
Schächinger, PM; Schrödl, M; Wilson, NG; Moles, J (2022). Crossing the Polar front - Antarctic species discovery in the nudibranch genus Tritoniella (Gastropoda). Organisms Diversity & Evolution . https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13127-022-00541-3 . ISSN: 1439-6092
Cunha, T.J.; Fernández-Simón, J.; Petrula, M.; Giribet, G.; Moles, J. (2023). Photographic checklist, DNA barcoding, and new species of sea slugs and snails from the Faafu Atoll, Maldives (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia and Vetigastropoda). Diversity, 15 . ISSN: 1424-2818
Moles J; Avila C; Malaquias MAE (2017). Systematic revision of the Antarctic gastropod family Newnesiidae (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) with the description of a new genus and a new abyssal species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 183, pp. 763 - 775 . https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx089/4735113 . ISSN: 0024-4082

Others Publications

Avila, C.; Núñez-Pons, L.; Moles, J. (2018). From the tropics to the poles: chemical defensive strategies in sea slugs (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) . In Chemical Ecology: The Ecological Impacts of Marine Natural Products. . Taylor & Francis . ISBN: 9781482248807 .