Research groups at the Faculty  (in Catalan)

Consolidated Faculty of Biology Research Groups (in Catalan)

Department of Animal Biology:

Biology and parasitology of terrestrial mammals	PI: Joaquim Gosálbez
Large marine vertebrates	PI: Alejandro Aguilar
Evolutionary ecology, behavior and conservation of biodiversity	PI: José Domingo Rodríguez-Tejeiro
Evolutionary ecology and biology of tetrapods. Applications to their conservation	PI: Carolina Sampera
Biology of vertebrates	PI: Adolfo de Sostoa
Biology of Human Populations	PI: Pedro Moral
Genes and environment in understanding the diversity of human behavior and the pathogenesis of mental illness	PI: Lourdes Fañanas
Evolution of hominids and other primates	PI: Alejandro Martínez Pérez-Pérez

Department of Ecology:

Biology and ecology of the benthos	PI: Javier Romero
Freshwater Ecology and Management (FEM)	PI: Narcís Prat

Department of Plant Biology:

Ecophysiology of mediterranean agriculture	PI: José Luis Araus
Phytogeography and cartography of vegetation	PI: José Mª Ninot
Ecology of agricole systems (agroecosystems)	PI: Francisco J. Sans
Physiology of plants in relation to the environment	PI: Esther Simón

Department of Microbiology:

Enteric Viruses	PI: Alberto Bosch
Ecogenetics and microbial diversity	PI: Ricardo Guerrero
Microbiology of water in relation to health	PI: Francisco Lucena
Biodegradation of xenobiotics and natural products: basic aspects and applications to clean technologies	PI: Francisco J. Pastor
Genomics and proteomics of bacterial virulence factors	PI: Juan Tomás Magaña
Bacterial molecular biology of host-pathogen interactions	PI: Antonio Juárez

Department of Stadistics:

Multivariate and computational statistical modeling

PI: Carlos Cuadras

Department of Physiology:

Regulation and optimization of fish species growth in aquaculture	PI: Joaquim Gutiérrez
Adaptive physiology: exercise and hypoxiade	PI: Ginés Viscor
Biology of the macrophage	PI: Antonio Celada

Department of Genetics:

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics	PI: Montserrat Aguadé
Evolution and development (Evo-Devo)	PI: Jaume Baguñá
Developmental Biology and Genetics	PI: Emili Saló
Functional genomics of pathologies	PI: Roser González Duarte
Human Molecular Genetics	PI: Daniel Grinberg
Metalloproteins, metallomics and networks of response to metals	PI: Silvia Atrián

Department of Cell Biology:

Cellular and  molecular basis of neurodegeneration and neurorepair	PI: José A. del Río
Neurobiology of neuronal development and regeneration	PI: Eduardo Soriano

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology:

Biochemistry and molecular biology of cancer	PI: José Mª Argilés
Molecular biology and biotechnology of isoprenoids	PI: Albert Boronat
Molecular neurobiology	PI: Enric Isidre Canela
Integrative biochemistry	PI: Marta Cascante
Drug Transport	PI: Juan Carlos Domingo
Molecular physiology	PI: Antonio Felipe
Cell engineering and gene therapy	PI: Ana Mª Gómez Foix
Metabolic engineering and therapy of diabetes	PI: Joan J. Guinovart
Lipid metabolism and lipases: obesity and stress (MELLOE)	PI: Miquel LLobera
Regulation of transport systems (RST)	PI: Marçal Pastor Anglada
Molecular modeling and bioinformatics	PI: Modesto Orozco
Pathology and molecular therapy of heterogenic and multigenic diseases (Patologia i teràpia mol·lecular en enfermetats heterogèniques i multigèniques)	PI: Manuel Palacín
Genetics and molecular biology of mitochondrial protein and associated pathologies	PI: Francesc Villaroya
Pathology and molecular therapy of heterogenic and poligenic diseases Grup	PI: Antonio Zorzano

Department of Nutrition and Food Science:

Nitrogen and Obesity

PI: Xavier Remesar