Rafael Zardoya
Research Professor CSIC
rafaz at mncn.csic.es
Yi Yang
yiyang at mncn.csic.es
Graduate student
José Ramón Pardos
Graduate student
jpblas at mncn.csic.es
Samuel Abalde
Graduate student
saabalde at mncn.csic.es
Iker Irisarri
Postdoc Juan de la Cierva
iker at mncn.csic.es

New PhD position available (requests until October 20th, 2020) !!!!!!
Cones are marine snails that live in tropical and subtropical waters around the world, feeding on worms, snails, and fish. To capture their prey, the cones produce a poison made up of peptides called conotoxins. More than 900 species of cones have been described, each producing a unique repertoire of hundreds of different conotoxins. The main objectives of this project are: 1) to advance in the resolution of the phylogenetic relationships of the Conidae family using nuclear markers and mitogenomes; 2) continue with the cataloging of the poisons of the different species at the transcriptomic level; and 3) discovering the genetic processes that are involved in their evolutionary success through the sequencing of their genomes at the chromosome level.
Candidates interested, please send your CV to rafaz@mncn.csic.es before deadline
Former members
Juan Esteban Uribe
Maite Cabría
David Osca
Pilar Flores
Raquel Álvarez
Etienne Kornobis
Michel Domínguez
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Happy to hear from you. In particular, highly motivated students of biology, genetics, and bioinformatics are encouraged to contact for potential master and/ or PhD projects
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