Elena Bosch Fusté

Elena Bosch Fusté

Barcelona, Spain
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC)
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Elena Bosch graduated in Biology at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1995 and, after pursuing her doctoral research on population genomics of the North African populations, she obtained her PhD at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In February 2000, she moved to the UK, where she was appointed Research Assistant at the University of Leicester to work on the human Y chromosome diversity and dynamics, at the laboratory of Dr. Mark Jobling. In 2004, thanks to a “Ramón y Cajal” contract, she established her own research group on Evolutionary Population Genetics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In 2008, she was granted tenure with an Associate Professor position that changed to Assistant Professor in February 2012. In 2008, she was one of the founding members of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF). She lectures on Human Evolution and Health within the bachelor degrees of Human Biology and Medicine within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In the last years, her research work has focused on investigating different aspects of human genetic diversity including human adaptation and the architecture of the genetic predisposition to complex disease. Beyond the detection of the footprint of natural selection into the genome itself, her group aims to elucidate the genetic variants and molecular phenotypes underlying the genetic basis of different human adaptations presumably related to immunity and pathogen interaction, diet, and micronutrient content.