Dr Cei Abreu-Goodger
Reader in Bioinformatics
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution
- School of Biological Sciences
Contact details
- Email: cei.abreu@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Abreu RNAlab
Address
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Rm 117, Ashworth Building
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Background
2021- Reader in Bioinformatics at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
2010-2021 Group leader at the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (Langebio Cinvestav), Irapuato, Mexico
2008-2010 Postdoctoral research fellow at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Cambridge, UK
2006-2008 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
2005-2006 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico
2000-2005 Ph.D. Biochemical Sciences (Bioinformatics), Institute of Biotechnology (IBT), National Autonomous University of Mexico
1995-2000 B.Sc. Basic Biomedical Research, Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB), National Autonomous University of Mexico
Undergraduate teaching
- Genomes and Genomics 3 (BILG09005) (Lecturer)
Postgraduate teaching
- Statistics and Data Analysis (PGBI11003) (Lecturer and Course Organiser)
- Next Generation Genomics (BILG11004) (Lecturer)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Bioinformatic projects related to small non-coding RNA, gene expression and regulation, transposable elements, genome evolution.
Current PhD students supervised
Current students (2023)
- Isaac Martinez-Ugalde (3rd year Evolutionary Biology)
- Yenetzi Villagrana-Pacheco (2nd year Evolutionary Biology)
- Adriana Orrego-Durañona (1st year Cell and Molecular Biology), co-supervised with Dr Elizabeth Bayne
- Logan Wang (MSc Bioinfomatics dissertation project)
- Yao Tong (MSc Bioinformatics dissertation project)
- Thomas Cattanach (Honours thesis project, Cell Biology)
Past PhD students supervised
Recently graduated students (2000-2022)
- Xiaoqi Luo. MSc dissertation: “Predicting regulatory motifs from large scale transcriptome resources”. Master of Science in Bioinformatics. August 2022.
- Guanke Bao. MSc dissertation: “Predicting regulatory motifs from large scale transcriptome resources”. Master of Science in Bioinformatics. August 2022.
- Ruoci Chen. MSc dissertation: “Dissecting RNA interference mechanisms and functions in the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans”. Master of Science in Bioinformatics. August 2022. Co-supervised with Dr Elizabeth Bayne.
- Tantely Delaine. BSc thesis: “Genomic drivers of gene regulation by small RNA in the parasitic nematode, Heligmosomoides bakeri”. BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences (Evolutionary Biology). May 2022.
- Panachai Punnatin. MSc dissertation: “Traversing networks of transcriptomes to predict regulatory motifs”. Master of Science in Bioinformatics. August 2021.
- Zulia Fernandina Nieves López. MSc thesis: “Origin and function of phytopathogen small RNAs produced during infection”. Plant Biotechnology Master’s program (Mexico). August 2021.
- Yenetzi Villagrana Pacheco. MSc thesis: “Predicting microRNA functions from individual cell transcriptomes”. Plant Biotechnology Master’s program (Mexico). August 2021.
- José Roberto Bermúdez Barrientos. PhD thesis: “Species interactions mediated by small RNAs”. Integrative Biology PhD program (Mexico). August 2020.
- Gonzalo Córdova López. MSc thesis: “Function and horizontal transfer of the RmNV-20S and RmNV-23S Narnavirus that reside within Rhizopus microsporus”. Integrative Biology Master’s program (Mexico). August 2020. Co-supervised with Dr Laila Pamela Partida-Martínez.
- Carlos Daniel Luna Gómez. MSc thesis: “Genome-wide prediction of tissue-specific enhancers during Drosophila melanogaster development”. Integrative Biology Master’s program (Mexico). August 2020. Co-supervised with Dr Katarzyna Oktaba-Sosin.
- Daniel Lepe Soltero. PhD thesis: “Effects of hybridization on paternal genome activation in Arabidopsis embryogenesis”. Plant Biotechnology PhD program (Mexico). July 2020. Co-supervised with Dr Charles Stewart Gillmor III.
- Isaac Martínez Ugalde. MSc thesis: “Characterization of the biogénesis of secreted transposable element derived small RNAs by Heligmosomoides bakeri”. Integrative Biology Master’s program (Mexico). February 2020.
- Michelle Crisely Munguía Figueroa. MSc thesis: “The cellular mechanisms of lifespan extension by metformin in budding yeast”. Integrative Biology Master’s program (Mexico). February 2020. Co-supervised with Dr Alexander de Luna-Fors.
Research summary
I am currently a Reader in Bioinformatics at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution (University of Edinburgh). My research interests are focused on gene regulation, small RNAs and transposable elements, using computational analyses and a variety of host-pathogen models. I did my PhD in Mexico, studying the evolution of regulatory RNA in bacteria, a postdoc in Cambridge UK working on the function of microRNAs in vertebrates, and was a group leader in Mexico for ten years before moving to the University of Edinburgh.