Mireia Valles Colomer

Tenure-track group leader, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Folgueroles

Postdoctorat a Espanya, 2024

I am a tenure-track Principal Investigator at the Medical and Life Sciences (MELIS) department of the University Pompeu Fabra, leading the Microbiome Research Group. With a background in Microbiology and Computational Biology (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and Free University of Brussels, Belgium), my research focuses on the role of the human microbiome in mental health and its transmission among individuals.
I performed the first population-level study on the link between the gut microbiome and host anxiety and depression during my PhD at VIB-KU Leuven (Belgium), in which I characterised the microbial production and degradation of neuroactive compounds in metagenomic data (Valles-Colomer et al, Nat. Microbiology 2019). The study was included in "Nature milestones 2019" as milestone paper in human microbiota research. During my postdoc in the group of Nicola Segata (EMBO long-term fellowship, University of Trento, Italy) I also showed that the gut microbiome can be transmitted among multiple familial generations (Valles-Colomer et al, Nat. Microbiology 2022), and performed the first large-scale study on the person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes (Valles-Colomer et al, Nature 2023).

La beca de Mireia

Postdoctorat a Espanya, 2024

Estudis cursats amb la beca

Sources of the Microbiome and Its Link with human hEalth (SMILE)

Tipus d'estudis

Postdoctorat

Universitat o centre de destinació

MELIS-UPF - Dept. of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Especialitat dels estudis cursats amb la beca

Altres especialitats biològiques

Universitat d'origen

KU Leuven

Especialitat d'origen

Microbiologia

Pròximes Activitats