She is the third Spanish researcher to be recognized as a Fellow by the ISCB. The other two Fellows are Alfonso Valencia, from the Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, and Nuria López-Bigas, from IRB Barcelona
Ana Conesa Cegarra, research professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, CSIC - UV), located at the University of Valencia Science Park (PCUV), has been elected new Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). This is a worldwide non-profit academic society that brings together researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics, which aims to communicate the importance of this area of knowledge to the scientific community, governmental organizations and the general public, as well as to promote scientific advances that contribute to improve the understanding of living systems through computation.
The researcher is the third Spaniard to be recognized as a Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology. The other two Fellows are Alfonso Valencia, researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, and Nuria López-Bigas, scientist at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The new Fellows will be recognized during the 2023 ISMB/ECCB conference to be held July 23-27 in Lyon (France).
The ISCB recognizes the Spanish scientist for her key contributions in the field of functional genomics, gene expression and multi-omics analysis, thanks to the development of bioinformatics tools widely used by biologists and bioinformaticians
The ISCB recognizes the Spanish scientist for her key contributions in the field of functional genomics, gene expression and multi-omics analysis, thanks to the development of bioinformatics tools widely used by biologists and bioinformaticians. Conesa has been a pioneer in the field of long-read transcriptomics and has developed more than 20 tools used by tens of thousands of scientists worldwide.
"For me it is a great recognition of my scientific career as a computational biologist in the field of transcriptomics, but also as an active member of the International Society for Computational Biology, of which I have been a member since 2008, and since 2015 co-organizer of the ISCB HitSeq Conference. More recently, I have served the society as a member of its team of directors and a member of the GreenISCB working group, where we promote sustainable practices in science," said Ana Conesa.
More than 20 years in computational biology
Conesa is a research professor at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, CSIC - Universitat de València) in València (Spain) and a courtesy lecturer at the University of Florida (USA). She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics and during this period has demonstrated a strong commitment to the development of high quality bioinformatics methods to help the scientific community at large to analyze gene expression data. She was the first bioinformatician to be inducted as a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and is an honorary member of the Spanish Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
"For me it is a great recognition of my scientific career as a computational biologist in the field of transcriptomics, but also as an active member of the International Society for Computational Biology, of which I have been a member since 2008, and since 2015 co-organizer of the ISCB HitSeq Conference," said Ana Conesa, research professor at the I2SysBio
His laboratory develops computational methods for the study of transcriptome functionality and the integration of multi-omics data for modeling developmental and disease processes. She has also created more than twenty software tools that are used by tens of thousands of researchers worldwide. It has pioneered the creation of computational methods for the application of single molecule sequencing technologies to the study of the transcriptome. Some of its most popular software tools are Blast2GO, PaintOmics, maSigPro, NOISeq, Qualimap, SQANTI, tappAS, etc.
International Society for Computational Biology
The ISCB is a worldwide non-profit academic society, founded in 1997 and based in California (USA), that brings together researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics, whose goal is to communicate scientific advances in the world that contribute to improving the understanding of living systems through computation. The ISCB seeks to disseminate the importance of computational biology among the scientific community in general, governmental organizations and the general public.
To this end, the society provides services to its members at the national and regional levels, offers guidance services for scientific policies, and facilitates publication opportunities, since it has three official journals: ISCB Community Journal, PLOS Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The society chooses ISCB Fellows every year to recognize its members who have shown outstanding commitment and excellence. In this way, it honors those of its members who have made outstanding contributions in the area of bioinformatics and computational biology.
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