Xavier Hernandez-Alias
Positions
| 2023 - present | EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow in the groups at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) and at the Chair of Computational Molecular Medicine, TUM, Germany |
| 2023 | Collaboratory Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Barcelona, Spain |
| 2023 | Postdoc in the group of Prof. Luis Serrano at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2018 - 2023 | PhD student at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (Prof. Luis Serrano and Dr. Martin Schaefer), Barcelona, Spain |
Education
| 2018 - 2023 | Ph.D. in Biomedicine (Systems Biology) at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Barcelona, Spain |
| 2016 - 2018 | M.Sc. in Biology (Major in Systems Biology) at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2012 - 2016 | B.Sc. in Biochemistry, University of Barcelona (UB), Spain |
Publications
- Xavier Hernandez-Alias@, Hannah Benisty, Leandro G. Radusky, Luis Serrano@, Martin H. Schaefer@. Using protein-per-mRNA differences among human tissues in codon optimization. Genome Biology, 2023.
- Xavier Hernandez-Alias, Christopher D. Katanski, …, Martin H. Schaefer, Luis Serrano, Tao Pan@. Single-molecule tRNA-seq analysis reveals coordination of tRNA modification and charging and fragmentation. Nucleic Acids Research, 2023.
- Hannah Benisty@, Xavier Hernandez-Alias, Marc Weber, Miquel Anglada-Girotto, …, Martin H. Schaefer, Luis Serrano@. Genes enriched in A/T-ending codons are co-regulated and conserved across mammals. Cell Systems, 2023.
- Xavier Hernandez-Alias@, Hannah Benisty, Martin H. Schaefer@, Luis Serrano@. Translational adaptation of human viruses to the tissues they infect. Cell Reports, 2021.
- Sarah A. Head@, Xavier Hernandez-Alias, Jae-Song Yang, Ludovica Ciampi, Violeta Beltran-Sastre, Antonio Torres-Méndez, Manuel Irimia, Martin H. Schaefer@, Luis Serrano@. Silencing of SRRM4 suppresses microexon inclusion and promotes tumor growth across cancers. PLOS Biology, 2021.
- Josep Tarragó-Celada*, Carles Foguet*, …, Xavier Hernandez-Alias, …, Marta Cascante@. Cysteine and Folate Metabolism Are Targetable Vulnerabilities of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Cancers, 2021.
- Javier Delgado Blanco, Xavier Hernandez-Alias, Damiano Cianferoni, Luis Serrano@. In silico mutagenesis of human ACE2 with S protein and translational efficiency explain SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in different species. PLOS Computational Biology, 2020.
- Hannah Benisty, Marc Weber, Xavier Hernandez-Alias, Martin H. Schaefer@, Luis Serrano@. Mutation bias within oncogene families is related to proliferation-specific codon usage. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2020.
- Ritobrata Ghose@, …, Xavier Hernandez-Alias, et al. From research to rapid response: mass COVID-19 testing by volunteers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation. F1000Research, 2020.
- Xavier Hernandez-Alias, Hannah Benisty, Martin H. Schaefer, Luis Serrano@. Translational efficiency across healthy and tumor tissues is proliferation-related. Molecular Systems Biology, 2020.