Mireia Vallès-Colomer
Location
Barcelona
Description
During her PhD at VIB-KU Leuven (Belgium), she studied the relationship between the gut microbiome and mental health, and developed bioinformatics tools to analyse the production of neuroactive molecules such as serotonin and dopamine. This work allowed for the first population-level study on the microbiome and mental health.
She later carried out her postdoctoral research in Nicola Segata’s laboratory (Università di Trento, Italy), with a fellowship from the ”la Caixa” Foundation that enabled her to deepen the study of microbiome transmission among people who cohabit. This research has helped increase the resolution of studies down to the strain level and has opened up new avenues in the field of computational microbiology.
Now, as head of the Microbiome Research Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Vallès brings together the two main strands of her research: microbiome transmission and its connection to mental health. She is launching projects to study how the gut microbiome is transmitted among individuals with conditions linked to microbiome imbalances, and to analyse these disorders using high-resolution techniques.
Patricia Pozo-Rosich
Head of the Neurology Service, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, director of the Migraine Adaptive Brain Center, leader of the VHIR Headache and Neurological Pain Research Group, and coordinator of the Brain, Mind and Behaviour Area at VHIR
Patricia Pozo Rosich is the director of the Migraine Adaptive Brain Center and of the Headache Unit at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, and head of the Neurology Service at the same Barcelona hospital. She holds a PhD in Medicine and is a ...
Analuce Canha Gouveia
Assistant professor (PhD) in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Cantabria and member of Gynetools SL
Analuce Canha is an assistant professor (PhD) in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Cantabria. She also works as a researcher in Pilar Coy’s team, which has created DUFIC, a device for the in vivo collection of uterine ...