Summary
Aureliano Gomez is a CSIC Professor and genomic researcher with 16 years of experience specializing in plant genomics, transcriptomics, polyploidy and phylogenomics. He combines hands-on molecular biology from his PhD on cultivated strawberry with deep bioinformatics expertise in de novo genome assembly, gap filling, structural/functional annotation and expression analysis. Known for building biological relational databases and Perl-based pipelines, he excels at integrating sequence and expression data for gene family and duplication studies. His career spans academia in Spain, Italy and the U.S., including roles at Virginia Tech, Cornell and the Boyce Thompson Institute, reflecting a strong track record in both research and teaching. Less obvious is his persistent focus on sequence curation—turning messy plant transcriptomes into reusable, well-annotated resources that enable downstream comparative genomics.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Molecular Biology, PhD, Molecular Biology at University of Malaga
Spanish, English, Italian