Ricard Albalat Rodriguez

Ricard Albalat Rodriguez

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-0282-9595
Scopus Author ID: 6701335280
Knowledge area: Genètica

Research group: Evolució i Desenvolupament (Evo-Devo)

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Av. Diagonal, 645
934029009
ralbalat(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Molecular Genetics (Degree in Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences)
Advanced Genetic Engineering (Degree in Biochemistry)
Advanced Techniques in Genetic Engineering (Master in Genetics and Genomics)

Academic Training

Biología . Universidad de Barcelona . 30/06/1987 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Biología . Universidad de Barcelona . 03/02/1994 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Functional and evolutionary analysis of the Metallothioneins
Transposable elements in the genomes of pre-vertebrate chordates
Gene and genome evolution in the chordate phylum (cephalocordates, urochordates and vertebrates)
Evolution by gene loss: Oikopleura dioica as a model system in EvoDevo
Analysis of the genetic responses of marine animals to heavy metal toxicity and other situations of environmental stress

Projects

Consecuencias de las Pérdidas Génicas en el Desarrollo y la Evolución: Desmantelando la Vía del Ácido Retinoico . 2011 - 2013 . Ref.BFU2010-14875 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Cristian Cañestro García
Comprensión de las interacciones moleculares entre metales y sistemas biológicos para el diseño de aplicaciones biomédicas y biotecnológicas. Sp1-aproximación biológica . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.BIO2015-67358-C2-1-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Ricard Albalat Rodriguez
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

Cañestro, C.; Postlethwait, J.; Gonzàlez-Duarte, R.; Albalat, R. (2006). Is retinoic acid genetic machinery a chordate innovation?. Evolution & Development, 8, pp. 394 - 406 . ISSN: 1520-541X
Albalat, R. (2009). The retinoic acid machinery in invertebrates: ancestral elements and vertebrate innovations. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 313, pp. 23 - 35 . ISSN: 0303-7207
Andreakis, N.; D'Aniello, S.; Albalat, R.; Patti, F.P.; Garcia-Fernàndez, J.; Procaccini, G.; Sordino, P.; Palumbo, A. (2011). Evolution of the nitric oxide synthase family in metazoans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28, pp. 163 - 179 . ISSN: 0737-4038
Albalat, R. (2012). Evolution of the genetic machinery of the visual cycle: a novelty of the vertebrate eye?. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29, pp. 1461 - 1469 . ISSN: 0737-4038
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
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
Dvorak, M.; Lackner, R.; Niederwanger, M.; Rotondo, C.; Schnegg, R.; Ladurner, P.; Pedrini-Martha, V.; Salvenmoser, W.; Kremser, L.; Lindner, H.; García-Risco, M.; Calatayud, S.; Albalat, R.; Palacios, Ò.; Capdevila, M.; Dallinger, R. (2018). Metal binding functions of metallothioneins in the slug Arion vulgaris differ from metal-specific isoforms of terrestrial snails. Metallomics, 10, pp. 1585 - 1594 . https://doi.org/10.1039/c8mt00215k . ISSN: 1756-5901
Calatayud, S.; Garcia-Risco, M.; Rojas, NS.; Espinosa-Sánchez, L.; Artime, S.; Palacios, Ò,.; Cañestro, C.; Albalat, R. (2018). Metallothioneins of the urochordate Oikopleura dioica have Cys-rich tandem repeats, large size and cadmium-binding preference. Metallomics, 10(11), pp. 1585 - 1594 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1756-5901
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

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