Francesc Català Moll
He holds a degree in Biotechnology from the University of Girona (2015). He then did a Master's degree in Genetics and Genomics at the University of Barcelona (2016). During the last year of the degree, he joined the group of Epigenetics and Immune Diseases at IDIBELL, under the supervision of Dr. Esteban Ballestar. It was there that he also carried out his PhD thesis in biomedicine at the University of Barcelona (which ended in June 2020).
During his PhD he focused his research on the study of molecular mechanisms associated with the active demethylation of DNA and its targeting at the genomic level through the use of some myeloid differentiation models. During his pre-doctoral training, he also spent an international stay at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), where he was trained in the generation and analysis of T-WGBS and ATAC-seq.
He is now part of the Microbial Genomics group, as DataSteward, to contribute to the development of bioinformatic tools for the study of the microbiome and its relationship with HIV infection.
Vaccination with an HIV T-cell immunogen induces alterations in the mouse gut microbiota.
Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variant transitions using differences in diagnostic cycle threshold values of target genes.
Probiotic effects on immunity and microbiome in HIV-1 discordant patients.
Inflammatory cytokines and organ dysfunction associate with the aberrant DNA methylome of monocytes in sepsis.
Inflammatory cytokines shape a changing DNA methylome in monocytes mirroring disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis.