Ana Conesa

Ana Conesa is a bioinformatics professor in the United States. She is currently a Bioinformatics professor at the Microbiology and Cell Science Department of the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, where she leads the Genomics of Gene Expressions laboratory. She is known for her work on the development of Blast2GO with Dr. Stefan Götz.

Education

Conesa received her undergraduate degree in Agricultural Engineering at the Polytechnical University of Valencia in 1993. She went on to complete her PhD in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Her thesis work involved the Microbiology Department of the Dutch Institute for Food Research (TNO).

Career

Following her studies at the University of Leiden, Conesa was appointed as the "Project Leader Bioinformatics" in the Department of Toxicology at the same institution (TNO). In 2003, she received the Ramon y Cajal award and moved to the Valencia Agricultural Research Institute in Spain. There, she developed bioinformatics tools to study citrus genomics.

In 2007, Conesa moved to the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), where she became the Senior Group Leader and created the Genomics of Gene Expression laboratory in 2010. In 2011, along with Dr. Stefan Gotz, Conesa formed the startup BioBam, focusing on building tools for genomic analyses in both the public and private sectors. Conesa was recruited to UF in 2014, maintaining a dual-appointment until 2018.

Awards

1. Ramón y Cajal Award for international talent attraction (2003-2008)
2. El Mundo Award Best start up in Valencia 2013 to BioBam

References

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