Dr. Macarena Toll Riera

Academic positions

From November 2019: PRIMA Group leader, ETH (https://evomicrobio.ethz.ch/)

2016-2019: Ambizione Fellow, University of Zurich 

2014-2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich

2013-2014: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford 

2011: PhD visiting student, Universith of Pennsylvania 

2007-2012: PhD Student, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 

Education

2007-2012: PhD in Biomedicine, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 

2007-2008: MSc in Human Biology, Universitat de Barcelona

2002-2007: BSc in Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 

Selected publications

Qi W, Colarusso A, Olombrada M, Parrilli E, Partignani A, Tutino ML, Toll-Riera M. (2019). “Do you really know your model organism? New insights on Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125 genome organization by next and third generation sequencing technologies“. Scientific Reports, in press

San Millan A*, Toll-Riera M*, Qi Q, Betts A, Hopkinson RJ, McCullagh J, MacLean RC. (2018) “Integrative analysis of fitness and metabolic effects of plasmids in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1“. ISME J. 12(12):3014-3024 

Toll-Riera M*, San Millan A*, Wagner A, MacLean RC. (2016) “The Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”. PLoS Genet. 12(5):e1006005 

San Millan A*, Toll-Riera M*, Qin Q, MacLean RC. (2015). “Interactions between horizontally acquired genes create a fitness cost in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”. Nat Commun. 6:6845 

Toll-Riera M, Albà M.M. (2013). “Emergence of novel domains in proteins”. BMC Evol Biol. 13:47 

Toll-Riera M, Bostick D, Albà M.M*, Plotkin J.B* . (2012). “Structure and age jointly influence rates of protein evolution”. PLoS Comput Bio. 8(5):e1002542 

Toll-Riera M, Radó-Trilla N, Martys F, Albà M.M. (2012). “Role of low-complexity sequences in the formation of novel protein coding sequences”. Mol Biol Evol. 29(3):883-6 

Toll-Riera M, Bosch N, Bellora N, Castelo R, Armengol L, Estivill X, Albà M.M. (2009). “Origin of primate orphan genes: a comparative genomics approach”. Mol Biol Evol. 26(3):603-12