Yolanda Guillén

Yolanda Guillén joined IMIDomics as a Bioinformatics Scientist to analyze and integrate multi-omic data from IMID patients, using the most innovative NGS techniques. She is a computational biologist with a degree in Biotechnology (2009) and a Ph.D. in Genetics (2014) from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has more than ten years of experience implementing NGS technologies in projects framed in multiple dis disciplines, from evolutionary genetics to cancer research. In 2014 she joined the Microbial Genomics group at IrsiCaixa to characterize the genetic content of the human gut microbiota, and its role in immune system deterioration. In 2018 she joined the Cancer and Stem Cells group at Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques Hospital del Mar (IMIM), one of the most experienced groups in Hematopoiesis in Spain. She has participated in different publications regarding the genetic mechanisms driving stem cell generation and maintenance in leukemia, colorectal cancer, and hematopoiesis. She is also an assistant professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), where she supervises students developing their MSc thesis in Bioinformatics.