CV
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Education
- B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU), 2019
- M.S. in Computational Biology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2021
- Ph.D in Genetics, Universitat de Barcelona (expected)
Work experience
- March 2022 - Present: Predoctoral Researcher
- Comparative Genomics group, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
- Wide-scale genomic analyses
- Supervisor: Toni Gabaldón
- November 2021 - February 2022: JAE Intro Fellow (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - CSIC)
- Biotecnología para la biomasa lignocelulósica, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CIB-CSIC)
- Bioinformatic support for a predominantly wet-lab group: Transcriptomic analyses, metabolomics,…
- Supervisor: Jorge Barriuso
- January 2021 - September 2021: Master Student Intern
- Evolutionary Dynamics of Genomes, Viruses and Microbial Populations group, Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP)
- Pangenome analysis
- Supervisors: Jaime Iranzo, Jaime Huerta-Cepas
Publications
2024
Bernabeu, M.✝, Manzano-Morales, S.✝, & Gabaldón, T. (2024). Phylogeny-aware simulations suggest a low impact of unsampled lineages in the inference of gene flow during eukaryogenesis. In Evolutionary Biology (No. biorxiv;2024.10.04.616067v1). bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.04.616067v1
Bernabeu, M.✝, Manzano-Morales, S.✝, Marcet-Houben, M., & Gabaldón, T. (2024). Diverse ancestries reveal complex symbiotic interactions during eukaryogenesis. In Evolutionary Biology (No. biorxiv;2024.10.14.618062v2). bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.14.618062v2
Langschied, F., Bordin, N., Cosentino, S., Fuentes-Palacios, D., Glover, N., Hiller, M., Hu, Y., Huerta-Cepas, J., Coelho, L. P., Iwasaki, W., Majidian, S., Manzano-Morales, S., Persson, E., Richards, T. A., Gabaldón, T., Sonnhammer, E., Thomas, P. D., Dessimoz, C., & Ebersberger, I. (2024). Quest for Orthologs in the Era of Biodiversity Genomics. Genome biology and evolution, evae224. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae224
de la Fuente, I.✝, Manzano-Morales, S.✝, Sanz, D., Prieto, A., & Barriuso, J.(2024). Quorum sensing in bacteria: in silico pro- tein analysis, ecophysiology, and reconstruction of their evolutionary history. BMC genomics, 25(1), 441. https://doi.org/10.1186/s1286 024-10355-6
Bernabeu, M.✝, Manzano-Morales, S.✝, & Gabaldón, T. (2024). On the impact of incomplete taxon sampling on the relative timing of gene transfer events. PLoS biology, 22(3), e3002460. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002460
2023
Manzano-Morales, S.✝, Liu, Y.✝, González-Bodí, S., Huerta-Cepas, J., & Iranzo, J. (2023). Comparison of gene clustering cri- teria reveals intrinsic uncertainty in pangenome analyses. Genome biology, 24(1), 250. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059- 023-03089-3
2022
Manzano-Morales S✝, Liu Y✝, Huerta-Cepas J, Iranzo J. 2022. “Operational Gene Clusters and Intrinsic Uncertainty in Pangenome Analyses.” BioRxiv 2022.09.25.509376’ (pdf)
Posters and Talks
2024
Poster - 30 Sept - 5 October 2024: CGUE, Sant Feliu de Guixols (Spain) Manzano-Morales, S, Gabaldón, T., 17-19 January 2024. “Phylogenomics of Asgard archaea reveals pervasive horizontal gene transfer and a role of gene duplication in expanding genome size”
Talk - 20 June 2024: XXIII Jornada de Biologia Evolutiva, Barcelona (Spain) Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T. “Unveiling the relative contribution of horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication in the genome expansion of Asgard archaea”
Talk - 7-8 May 2024: 11th BSC Doctoral Symposium, Barcelona (Spain) Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T. “Reconstructing prokaryotic metabolic contributions to the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor”
Poster - 17-19 January 2024: SESBE, Malaga (Spain) Manzano-Morales, S, Gabaldón, T. “Horizontal Gene Transfer in Asgard Archaea”
2023
Poster - 22-27 July 2023: SMBE, Ferrara (Italy) Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T. “Horizontal Gene Transfer in Asgard Archaea”
Talk - 5 July 2023: XII Jornada de Biología Evolutiva, Barcelona (Spain) Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T. “Horizontal Gene Transfer in Asgard Archaea”
Poster - 25-28 June 2023: XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología, Burgos (Spain) Guerrero J, Crespo, D Manzano-Morales S, Prieto, A; Barriuso, J. “Análisis transcriptómico de un consorcio mixto hongo-bacteria para la valorización de un residuo lignocelulósico”
Talk - 9-10 May 2023: 10th BSC Doctoral Symposium, Barcelona (Spain) Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T. “Horizontal Gene Transfer in Asgard Archaea”
2022
Poster & Lightning Talk 3-7 October 2022: ERGA Biodiversity Genomics, Online Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T “A pan-genome view of the Asgard archaea, the closest relatives of eukaryotes”
Poster - 17-18 September 2022: Quest for Orthologs 7, Sitges Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T. “A pan-genome view of the Asgard archaea, the closest relatives of eukaryotes”
Poster 12-17 September 2022: EMBO Workshop. Comparative genòmics of unicellular eukaryotes: Interactions and symbioses, Sant Feliu de Guixols Manzano-Morales S, Gabaldón T. “A pan-genome view of the Asgard archaea, the closest relatives of eukaryotes”
Teaching
2024
Comparative and Functional Genomics, BS Bioinformatics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) (Teaching Assistant)
2023
Comparative and Functional Genomics, BS Bioinformatics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) (Teaching Assistant)
2022
Bioinformatics, BS Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) (Teaching Assistant)
Comparative and Functional Genomics, BS Bioinformatics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) (Teaching Assistant)
Outreach
Crazy about HPC - Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera} (Barcelona, Spain) Volunteer Teacher, April 2023
Bioinfo4Women - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona, Spain) Member, 2022- Present
Women’s Health Awareness Week- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona, Spain) Volunteer, May 2022
9th BSC Doctoral Symposium- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona, Spain)
BSC Open House - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona, Spain) Volunteer, September 2022
Life Sciences Open Day - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona, Spain Volunteer and Presenter, February 2022