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Research

Publications

  • Breschi A.*, Muñoz-Aguirre M.*, […], Guigó R., (2019). A limited set of transcriptional programs define major histological types and provide the molecular basis for a cellular taxonomy of the human body. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/857169
  • PG Ferreira, Muñoz-Aguirre M., […], Guigó, R. (2018). The effects of death and post-mortem cold ischemia on human tissue transcriptomes. Nature Communications 9 (1), 490. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02772-x
  • Muñoz-Aguirre M., Ferreira PG., Guigó R. (2018). Determinación de la hora de la muerte a partir del patrón de expresión de los genes en múltiples tejidos. Genética Médica News. ISSN 2386-5113. Link
  • GTEx Consortium. (2017). Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24277
  • Muñoz-Aguirre M., Cheng Y. (2012). Hardware and software co-simulation. Bachelor thesis, HBO Kennisbank. Link

Conferences

  • LifeTime Unconference. July 22-23, 2019. Barcelona, Spain. Talk: Connecting bulk transcriptomic variation with human phenotypes by integrating RNAseq with histopathology images.
  • ISBER’s 2nd Biospecimen Research Symposium: Focus on Quality and Standards. February 5-6, 2019. Berlin, Germany, Talk: The effects of death and post-mortem cold ischemia on human tissue transcriptomes.
  • Biology of Genomes. May 8-12, 2018. Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. Poster: Characterizing transcriptomic variation across human phenotypes by integrating RNAseq data with histopathology images and annotations.
  • GTEx Project Community Meeting. June 27-28, 2017. Rockville, MD, USA. Talk: Leveraging the GTEx histological data: phenotype extraction.
  • CRG PhD Symposium. 2017. Barcelona, Spain. Poster: Exploring the relationship between the transcriptome and human phenotypes.
  • B-Debate: Enhancing the Usage of Human Genomics for the benefit of all. April 20-21, 2017. Barcelona, Spain. Poster: Leveraging the GTEx histological data: phenotype extraction
  • Biostatnet. 2016. Barcelona, Spain. Collaborative poster: Exploring the relationship between the transcriptome and human phenotypes.
  • GTEx Project Community Meeting. June 22-25, 2015. Chicago, IL, USA. Talk: Medical history phenotype prediction using gene expression data.
  • GTEx Project Community Meeting. June 22-25, 2015. Chicago, IL, USA. Poster: Perspectives on the human transcriptome when crossing with other phenotypes.

Teaching

  • Statistics and Health Sciences (Statistics for Biosciences). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 2019. Barcelona, Spain. Lab sessions.
  • Statistics and Biodiversity (Statistics for Biosciences). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 2018, 2019. Barcelona, Spain. Lab sessions.
  • Studying the transcriptome using RNAseq. Centre for Genomic Regulation. 2018, 2019. Barcelona, Spain. Workshop.
  • Statistical methods for data mining. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 2018. Barcelona, Spain. Lab sessions.
  • Statistics and probability. Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior. Mexicali, México. Mentoring sessions.
  • Programming I and II. Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior. Mexicali, México. Mentoring sessions.

Competitions

  • Barcelona Citython 2019 - Rethinking mobility in cities: Winner of the Comprehensive Cities category.
  • Accenture Digital Healthcare Hackaton 2019 - prediction of mortality rate in melanoma patients: Finalist (4th place).
  • Barcelona Citython 2018: Winner of the CISCO tech prize.