Verónica Lloréns-Rico

Verónica Lloréns-Rico

Junior Group Leader, Systems Biology of Host-Microbiome Interactions lab

Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe

Biography

I am a Junior Group Leader at the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, where I lead the Systems Biology of Host-Microbiome Interactions group. My main research interest is to understand how bacteria in the gut microbiome regulate their gene expression in response to different environmental cues, and use this knowledge to design targeted microbiota modulation strategies.

Interests
  • Gene regulation
  • Human microbiome
  • Metatranscriptomics
  • Metagenomics
  • Systems Biology
Education
  • PhD in Biomedicine, 2016

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Center for Genomic Regulation

  • MSc in Biophysics, 2012

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

  • BSc in Biotechnology, 2011

    Universitat Politècnica de València

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe
Junior Group Leader
January 2023 – Present Valencia, Spain
 
 
 
 
 
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology
Postdoctoral researcher
October 2017 – December 2022 Leuven, Belgium
 
 
 
 
 
Systems Biology department, Center for Genomic Regulation
Postdoctoral researcher
October 2016 – September 2017 Barcelona, Spain
 
 
 
 
 
Systems Biology department, Center for Genomic Regulation
PhD student
September 2012 – September 2016 Barcelona, Spain
 
 
 
 
 
Bioengineering department, Stanford University
Visiting researcher
May 2013 – June 2013 California, USA
 
 
 
 
 
Bioinformatics department, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe
Undergraduate researcher
October 2009 – September 2011 Valencia, Spain
Two periods: October 2009 - June 2010 and February 2011 - September 2011

Recent Publications

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(2022). Single-cell approaches in human microbiome research. Cell.

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(2021). Clinical practices underlie COVID-19 patient respiratory microbiome composition and its interactions with the host. Nature Communications.

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(2021). Benchmarking microbiome transformations favors experimental quantitative approaches to address compositionality and sampling depth biases. Nature Communications.

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(2021). Endogenous IFNB expression predicts outcome in critical patients with COVID-19. The Lancet Microbe.

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(2019). Determination of the gene regulatory network of a genome-reduced bacterium highlights alternative regulation independent of transcription factors. Cell Systems.

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Funding

Selected grants and fellowships

AEI
Proyectos de Generacion de Conocimiento 2022
AEI
Ayudas para contratos Ramón y Cajal 2021
FWO
FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship
FWO
FWO Senior Research Project
Promoter: Sabine Tejpar.
Co-promoters: Verónica Lloréns-Rico and Sara Verbandt
FWO
FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship
FundaciónLaCaixa
La Caixa - Beca de Máster en España
CSIC
JAE Intro scholarship

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