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- Date of birth: October 4th, 1989
- Place of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Nationality: Argentinian & Croatian
- E-Mail (Personal): niconm89@gmail.com
- E-Mail (Work): nmoreyra@ege.fcen.uba.ar
I have a BSc. in Bioinformatics and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology. I am passionate about next generation sequencing technologies, omic sciences and programming to answer biological and ecological questions. I currently hold a postdoctoral position at IEGEBA and FuEDEI. In this project I apply comparative genomic methodologies to investigate ecological speciation in cactophilic moths of the genus Cactoblastis.
- Spanish as a native language.
- English in upper-intermediate level (B2).
- Speaking and listening clases. An hour per week (Present).
- Taller de Escritura Independiente (Independent Writing Workshop for the TOEFL exam). Departamento de Idiomas, FCEyN, UBA. Duration: 6 classes of 3 hs, 2021.
- Taller de Presentaciones Orales (Oral Presentations Workshop). Departamento de Idiomas, FCEyN, UBA. Duration: 4 classes of 2 hs, 2021.
- English courses of levels 3 to 7 (upper-intermediate). Centro de Idiomas de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral. From March 2014 to March 2015.
| Name | Institution | Project title | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Studies | Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA, UBA-CONICET) and Fundación para el Estudio de Especies Envasivas (FuEDEI). Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. | Comparative genomics of cactophilic moths of the genus Cactoblastis. | 2021 | Present |
| Ph.D. in Biological Sciences | Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEyN), Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. | Genome assembly and comparative analysis of the species D. borborema, D. antonietae y D. koepferae (Drosophila buzzatii cluster, repleta group). | 2015 | 2020 |
| BSc. in Bioinformatics | Facultdad de Ingeniería (FI), Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos (UNER). Oro Verde, Entre Rios, Argentina. | Deconvolution of ELISPOT T-cell responses against HIV using immunoinformatic screening methods. | 2008 | 2014 |
| Description + Funding | Project title | Place of Work | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. scholarship (Type I) - Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT) | Genome assembly of four South American cactophilic species belonging the Drosophila buzzatii* cluster | IEGEBA | 2015 | 2018 |
| Short-term scholarship of DEANN Project “Marie Curie Actions - International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES)” financed by the European Commision. | Identification and description of transponsable elements families in stressful cactophilic Drosophila genomes. | Gonzalez Lab, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE), Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain. | 2016 | 2016 |
| Short-term Internship - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and ANPCyT | Collaboration under the project “Genome assembly of four South American cactophilic species belonging the Drosophila buzzatii cluster”. | Matzkin Lab, University of Arizona (UA), Tucson, United States (US) | 2018 | 2018 |
| Ph.D. Scholarship (Type II) - CONICET | Genome assembly of four South American cactophilic species belonging the Drosophila buzzatii cluster | IEGEBA | 2018 | 2021 |
| Postdoctoral Scholarship - CONICET | Genome assembly of four South American cactophilic species belonging the Drosophila buzzatii cluster | IEGEBA and FuEDEI | 2021 | 2024 |
| Position | Student | Studies | Thesis | Institution | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Ailin Glagovsky | BSc. in Biotechnology | Evolutionary analysis of the alcohol dehydrogenase protein family in the Drosophila buzzatii cluster (repleta group). | Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia (FBQF), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) | 2022 | Present |
| Position | Course | Semester | Institution | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor | Health information systems (Technical and tertiary education) | Annual | Instituto de Formación Técnica Superior N° 7 (IFTS7) | 2020 | Present |
| Professor | Informatics (Technical and tertiary education) | 1st | Instituto de Formación Técnica Superior N° 7 (IFTS7) | 2020 | Present |
| Professor | Bioinformatics (undergraduate course) | 2nd | Universidad Favaloro (UF) | 2018 | 2022 |
| Invited teacher | Evolutionary and Populational Genomics (post- and undergraduate course) | 1st (90hrs) | Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución (EGE), (FCEyN-UBA | 2018 | 2020 |
| Teacher | Programming in Python for Biology (workshop for undergraduate students) | 2nd (32hrs) | Universidad Favaloro (UF) | 2018 | 2020 |
| Invited teacher | Human Population Genomics and diseases (postgraduate course) | 1st (90hrs) | Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución (EGE), (FCEyN-UBA | 2016 | 2017 |
| Mentor | Student-to-student mentoring | Annual | Facultad de Ingeniería (FI), Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos (UNER) | 2018 | 2020 |
- Hasson E*, Moreyra NN (2023). Moscas y cactus: un sistema-modelo para el estudio del papel de los saltos de planta hospedadora en la diversificación. eVOLUCION, Boletín de la SESBE Vol. 17(1) Marzo 2023.
- Mensch J*, Moreyra NN*, Hasson E (2023). Transcriptional responses of immature and mature females acclimated under the same low temperature provides insights into cold tolerance of cactophilic Drosophila buzzatii. In preparation to be submitted to Genes.
- Moreyra NN*, Almeida F, Allan C, Frankel N, Matzkin L, Hasson E (2022). Phylogenomics provides insights into the evolution of cactophily and host plant shifts adaptation in Drosophila. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2023 Jan 1;178:107653.
- Rondón JJ*, Moreyra NN, Pisarenco VA, Rozas J, Hurtado J and Hasson E (2022). Evolution of the odorant-binding protein gene family in Drosophila. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:957247. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.957247
- Moreyra NN*, Mensch J, Hurtado J, Almeida F, Laprida C, Hasson E (2019). What does mitogenomics tell us about the evolutionary history of the Drosophila buzzatii cluster (repleta group)? PLoS ONE 14(11): e0220676. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220676.
- Shome S*, Parra RG, Fatima N, Monzon AM, Cuypers B, Moosa Y, Coimbra NDR, Assis J, Giner-Delgado C, Dönertaş HM, Cuesta-Astroz Y, Saarunya G, Allali I, Gupta S, Srivastava A, Kalsan M, Valdivia C, J Olguin-Orellana G, Papadimitriou S, Parisi D, Kristensen NP, Rib L, Guebila MB, Bauer E, Zaffaroni G, Bekkar A, Ashano E, Paladin L, Necci M, Moreyra NN, Rydén M, Villalobos-Solís J, Papadopoulos N, Rafael C, Karakulak T, Kaya Y, Gladbach Y, Dhanda SK, Šoštarić N, Alex A, DeBlasio D, Rahman F. (2019). Global network of computational biology communities: ISCB's Regional Student Groups breaking barriers. F1000Research, 8, ISCB Comm J-1574. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20408.1.
- Cravero F*, Landaburu LU, Moreyra NN, Fenoy E, Franzotti CL, Lanzarotti E, Parra RG, Palopoli N, Monzon AM. 2nd Argentine Symposium of Young Bioinformatics Researchers (2SAJIB) organized by the ISCB-SC RSG-Argentina. PeerJ Preprints; 2018 Jan 4. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3504v2
- Parra RG*, Defelipe LA, Guzovsky AB, Monzón A, Cravero F, Mancini E, Moreyra NN, Padilla Franzotti CL, Revuelta MV, Freiberger MI, Gonzalez NH. Highlights of the 1st Argentine Symposium of Young Bioinformatics Researchers (1SAJIB) organized by the ISCB RSG-Argentina. https://peerj.com/preprints/2494v1/
| Name | Description | Repository | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSCO2Tree | A Python pipeline that helps to build a phylogenetic tree using the BUSCO results over a group of species/genomes/proteomes/transcriptomes. | https://github.com/niconm89/BUSCO2Tree | 2023 |
Evaluation1
| Student | Thesis tile | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Mateo Gallia | Estudio metagenómico de los microorganismos asociados a la digestión anaerobia de efluentes y de sus interacciones | 2019 |
| Clementina Penna | Estudios evolutivos de las proteínas de interacción entre gametas del género Panthera | 2019 |
| Nahuel Abel Escobedo | Caracterización de cambios conformacionales en proteínas homoligoméricas | 2019 |
| Description | Awarded by | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travel Fellowship to attend to the EMBO Practical Course “Bioinformatics and Genome Analyses”. | European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) | Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michelle all'Adige, Trento, Italy. | 2019 |
| Travel Fellowship Award to attend to the ECCB2016. | European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) | The Hague, Netherlands. | 2016 |
| Fellowship Award “Jóvenes Profesionales TICs 2013”. | ANPCyT | Oro Verde, Entre Ríos, Argentina | 2013 |
Participation in Funded Scientific Projects2
| Role | Title | Type of funding | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research assistant | La vida en pausa: metabolismo y evolución de la diapausa reproductiva en Drosophila | Grant PICT 2018-03716 | 2020 | 2022 |
| Ph.D. fellow | Mapeo por NGS del período refractario de la hembra de Drosophila, un carácter blanco de la selección sexual postcopulatoria | Grant PICT 2016/0253 | 2017 | 2020 |
| Ph.D. fellow | Mapeo de caracteres complejos por introgresión fenotípica selectiva combinada con secuenciación paralela masiva: el caso de la morfología genital en Drosophila | Grant PICT 2013/1121 | 2014 | 2017 |
| Course | Duration | Institution | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to ‘omics Research | 6 months | Harvard Catalyst | Virtual | 2020 |
| Programming in Python | 4 months (120 hs) | Universidad de San Martin (UNSAM) | Virtual | 2020 |
| EMBO Practical Course: Bioinformatics and Genome Analyses | 2 weeks (110 hs) | European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) | FEM, San Michelle all'Adige, Italy | June 16 to 30, 2019 |
| Cladistic Analysis and Molecular Phylogenies | 4 months (120hs) | Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución (EGE), (FCEyN-UBA | Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina | March 1 to June 16, 2018 |
| Advanced Genomic Analysis: de novo genome assembly | 4 days (32 hs) | Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) and the Earlham Institute (EI) | INTA Castelar, William C. Morris, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina | December 18 to 21, 2017 |
| Genomic Tools and Bioinformatic Analysis | 3 days (24hs) | Ornithology Congress of the Americas and the Harvad University | Instituto Misionero de Biodiversidad (ImiBio), Puerto Iguazú, Provincia de Misiones, Argentina | August 6 to 8, 2017 |
| Human genetics | 10 days (80hs) | Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular (FBMC), (FCEyN-UBA | Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina | July 3 to 14, 2017 |
| Data Science in R: statistical basis | 6 days (18hs) | Instituto del Cálculo (IC), (FCEyN-UBA | Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina | March 1 to 16, 2017 |
| Genetics and Molecular Ecology | 4 months (120hs) | Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución (EGE), (FCEyN-UBA | Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina | March 1 to June 16, 2016 |
| Human Population Genomics and Diseases | 4 months (90hs) | Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución (EGE), (FCEyN-UBA | Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina | August 1 to November 16, 2015 |
| Introduction to Genomic Data Analysis Using HapMap and 1000 Genomes Projects (4th Edition) | 5 days (40hs) | Transmitting Science and the Instituto de Genética Veterinaria (IGEVET), CONICET | La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina | August 10 to August 14, 2015 |
| Course | Institution | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algorithms for DNA sequencing | Coursera - Johns Hopkins University | Virtual | 2018 |
| Python for Genomic Data Science | Coursera - Johns Hopkins University | Virtual | 2017 |
| Command Line Tools for Genomic Data Science | Coursera - Johns Hopkins University | Virtual | 2016 |
| Introduction to Relational DataBases with MySQL | Workshop - RSG-Arg | 4th Argentinean Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (4CAB2C).Bahía Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. | 2015 |
| Web Server programming | Workshop - RSG-Arg | Fundacion Instituto Leloir (FIL), Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. | 2014 |
| Programming in R | Workshop - RSG-Arg | 3rd Argentinean Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (3CAB2C), FI-[UNER](https://www.uner.edu.ar/, Oro Verde, Provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina. | 2012 |
| Programming in Perl | Workshop - RSG-Arg | 3rd Argentinean Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (3CAB2C), FI-[UNER](https://www.uner.edu.ar/, Oro Verde, Provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina. | 2012 |
- UNIX/Linux systems user
- Experience working in HCP servers.
- High-throuput sequencing data QC and curation (single-end, pair-ends, mate-pairs and long reads)
- Repeat library generation and Transposable Element annotation
- Genome assembly and annotation
- Gene annotation curation (e.g. Apollo)
- Orthology search/prediction
- Management of genomic files such as gff, fasta, bed and related formats
- Phylogenomics: phylogeny reconstruction and divergence time estimation
- Molecular evolution analysis
- Transcriptome assembly
- Differential expresion analysis
- Sequencing Experimental Design
- Python
- Bash
- R
- AWK
- Perl
- C++ (bassic)
- Collaborative work on GitHub and GitLab
- 2014 – Present. Regional Student Group Argentina (RSG-Arg)
- The RSG is a group of students and young researchers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, that depends on the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council (SC.
- Roles: Academic Advisor (2019 – Present); President (2018 – 2019); Secretary (2017); Financial Director (2016); Collaborator (2014 – 2015).
| Event | Participation | Organizer | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biodiversity Genomics 2022 Conference (BG2022) | Attendance | BG2022 | Virtual Session | 2022 |
| 1st-7th Argentine Symposium of Young Researchers in Bioinformatics (SAJIB). | Organizer | Regional Student Group Argentina (RSG-Arg) | Virtual Session | 2016-2022 |
| 1st Latin American Congress on Evolution (CLEVOL) | Oral presentation: Moreyra N., Ameida F., Hasson E.; Origin of cactophyly and functional genomic analysis of host plant use specialization the repleta group (genus Drosophila). | Sociedad Argentina de Biología Evolutiva (SABE), Sociedad Chilena de Evolución (SOCEVOL) and Asociación Colombiana de Evolución (COLEVOL) | Virtual Session | 2021 |
| II Reunión Argentina de Biología Evolutiva. | Oral presentation: Moreyra N., Mensch J., Hurtado J., Ameida F., Laprida C., Hasson E.; What does mitogenomics tell us about the evolutionary history of the Drosophila buzzatii? | Sociedad Argentina de Biología Evolutiva (SABE) | FCEyN-UBA | 2019 |
| EMBO Practical Course: Bioinformatics and Genome Analyses. | Poster: Moreyra NN., Mensch J., Hurtado J., Hasson E.; Tracing the evolutionary history of the Drosophila buzzatii cluster. | European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) | FEM, San Michelle all'Adige, Italy | 2019 |
| International Conference “Evolution and Ecology: The Cactophilic Drosophila Model System” | Poster: *Moreyra NN.**, Mensch J., Hurtado J., Hasson E.; Comparative mitogenomic analysis of the Drosophila buzzatii cluster. | Journal of Heredity | El Pedregal Nature Logde and Resort, Los Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. | 2018 |
| 15th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2016). | Poster: Moreyra NN., Mensch J., Hurtado J., Hasson E. Differential expression analysis of cold tolerance adaptation by RNA-seq de novo approach. | European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) | The Hague, Netherlands. | 2016 |
| 6th Argentinian Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (6CAB2C). | Poster: Moreyra NN., Mensch J., Hurtado J., Hasson E. Initial differential expression analysis of diapause in Argentinean D. buzzatii by RNA-seq de novo approach. | Asociación Argentina de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional (A2B2C) | Bahía Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. | 2015 |
| VI Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CLAIB). | Oral Presentation: Moreyra NN., Brunner M., Metz S., Pais C. Cellular automata model approach for the study of the impact of social relationships on eating habits of adolescents of school age. | Consejo Regional de Ingeniería Biomédica para América Latina | Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina. | 2014 |
| IV Argentinean Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (4CAB2C). | Poster: Moreyra NN., Nielsen M. Deconvoluting T cell HIV ELISPOT responses using immunoinformatics screening methods. | Asociación Argentina de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional (A2B2C) | Rosario, Provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina. | 2013 |
| 3rd Argentinean Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (3CAB2C). | Attendant | Asociación Argentina de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional (A2B2C) | Oro Verde, Provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina. | 2012 |
| 1st Argentinean Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CAB2C). | Attendant | Asociación Argentina de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional (A2B2C) | Bernal, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. | 2010 |
- 2016 - 2019. International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB).