nireEHU SANTOS ALONSO ALEGRE
- Knowledge area
- Physical Anthropology
- Department
- Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology
- Centre
- Faculty of Science and Technology
- Electronic mail
- santos.alonso@ehu.eus
Degree in Biological Sciences (UPV/EHU, 1988). PhD in Biological Sciences (UPV/EHU, 1995). Topic: Hypervariable regions in the human genome and their application to paternity testing: Supervisor Dra Marian Mtnez de Pancorbo (Fac de Medicina, Dept Biología Celular. UPV/EHU). Post doc (Wellcome Trust Research Associate) Univ. de Nottingham (1996 a 2001), supervisor Dr. John Armour (Dpto Genética). Topic, Human genetic diversity, human evolutionary history. Ramón y Cajal fellow (2001 to 2006) (UPV/EHU FCyT, Dpto Genética, Antropología Física y Fisiología Animal). Researcher (2006 - 2011), same Dpt. Permanent Researcher from 2011. (same Dpto). Profesor of Physical Anthropology in english (Degree in Biology, 3). Three PhD theses directed, two more ongoing. One of them in collaboration with Progenika-Biopharma (Grifols). Secretary of the Sociedad Española de Antropología Física. IP of 3 National projects MICINN/MINECO. Consolidated group type A (Basque Government) Most relevant publications “Low-Pass DNA Sequencing of 1200 Sardinians …. Science (2013) 341 565-569”. and “The Interplay between Natural Selection and Susceptibility to Melanoma …. PLoS ONE 9(8): e104367 (2014)” Patentes: Método de Diagnóstico y Pronóstico de Melanoma Cutáneo. I am part of Project RISE Europe (IP UPV/EHU Rafa Morales, 2017), and Astonish (H2020 (IP in UPV/EHU Lola Boyano). Research interests: genetic diversity related to human adaptations (pigmentation) and disease (me