Biography
My research is part of the Decoding Biodiversity program and focuses on studying chromosomal rearrangements and other structural variations in banana cultivars using latest long-read sequencing technologies (Oxford Nanopore).
This entails generating and exploring genome and pangenome assemblies and annotations, and associating the variation in DNA sequence to phenotype with a deeper focus on traits related to the resistance against the Panama disease.
Prior to joining De Vega group at Earlham Institute I worked at the John Innes Centre generating genome assemblies of Brassicas and studying the inheritance of triad gene expression in elite and landrace wheat cultivars.
I have a background in plant genomics and bioinformatics and I am highly interested in polyploid crops, their genomes, evolution and improvement for agricultural use.