
Perfil

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).
Sector professional
La beca de Mireia
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
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