About me

Bio

• Postdoc, Sunagawa Lab, ETH Zürich (Switzerland), current
• PhD. in Oceanography, Polytechnic University of Catalonia & Marine Sciences Institute (ICM - CSIC) (Spain), 2019
• MSc in Biodiversity: Conservation and Evolution, University of Valencia (Spain), 2008
• Diploma in Biological Sciences, University of Valencia (Spain), 2007

Curriculum vitae

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Research area

Microbial populations sustain the balance of geochemistry and life in the ocean by driving the transfer, recycling and exportation of matter and energy. Yet, long-​standing questions in microbial ecology and evolution remain to be addressed. I am interested in deciphering the relative importance of gene expression modulation and adaptation of marine microbes. Specifically, I study how these two processes -​acting at the individual or population level-​ shape the structure and function of microbial communities. For this purpose, I use bioinformatic tools to analyze environmental metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. This will help to better understand the short and long-​term response of marine microbes to a changing environment.

Seelected publications

• Guillem Salazar, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh, Falk Hildebrand, Silvia G Acinas, Shinichi Sunagawa. (2021) mTAGs: taxonomic profiling using degenerate consensus reference sequences of ribosomal RNA genes. Bioinformatics

• Guillem Salazar, Lucas Paoli, et al. (2019) Gene Expression Changes and Community Turnover Differentially Shape the Global Ocean Metatranscriptome. Cell 179 (5) 1068-1083.e21

• Guillem Salazar, Shinichi Sunagawa. (2017) Marine microbial diversity. Current Biology 27 (11) R489-R494

• Guillem Salazar, Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo, Encarna Borrull, Cristina Díez-Vives, Elena Lara, Dolors Vaqué, Jesús M. Arrieta, Carlos M. Duarte, Josep M. Gasol, Silvia G. Acinas. (2015) Particle-association lifestyle is a phylogenetically conserved trait in bathypelagic prokaryotes. Molecular Ecology 24 (22) 5692-5706

Contact

ETH Zurich
Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL
HCI F425A, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 4
8093 Zurich, Switzerland