Previous group members

  • Luis Ever Vega-Cabrera, PhD student (ETH Zurich, 4.2020-09.2024)
  • Dr. David Schnettler Fernández, Postdoctoral researcher (ETH Zurich, 09.2021-08.2024)
  • Dr. Alexander Klug, Postdoctoral researcher (ETH Zurich, 02.2024-07.2024)
  • Lisa Freund, Research assistant (ETH Zurich, 11.2023 – 03.2024)
  • Carlota Losa Mediavilla, Rotation Master student (ETH Zurich, 09.2023 – 12.2023
  • Melih Çakar, summer internship (ETH Zurich, 07.2023 – 09.2023)
  • Enora Marrec, Rotation Master student (ETH Zurich, 02.2023 – 06.2023)
  • Vilhelmiina Haavisto, Rotation master student (ETH Zurich, 09.2021 – 12.2021)
  • Dr. Miriam Olombrada, Research assistant (ETH Zurich, 04.2021 – 02.2022)
  • Daniela Lang, Laboratory technician (ETH Zurich, 03.2020 – 06.2020)
  • Nadine Thierer, Master student (University of Zurich, 02.2019 – 01.2020)
  • Cheng Li, Rotation master student (University of Zurich, 11.2017 – 12.2017)
  • Dr. Miriam Olombrada, Research assistant (University of Zurich, 02.2017 –08.2020)

 

Selected publications

 

Toll-Riera M, Olombrada M, Castro-Giner F, Wagner A. (2022). A limit on the evolutionary rescue of an Antarctic bacterium from rising temperaturas. Sci Adv. 8(28):eabk3511.

Rodríguez-Beltrán J, Sørum V, Toll-Riera M, de la Vega C, Peña-Miller R, San Millán Á. (2020). Genetic dominance governs the evolution and spread of mobile genetic elements in bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 117(27):15755-15762.

Qi W, Colarusso A, Olombrada M, Parrilli E, Patrignani A, Tutino ML, Toll-Riera M. (2019). New insights on Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125 genome organization and benchmarks of genome assembly applications using next and third generation sequencing technologies. Sci Rep. 9(1):16444.

San Millan A*, Toll-Riera M*, Qi Q, Betts A, Hopkinson RJ, McCullagh J, MacLean R. (2018). Integrative analysis of fitness and metabolic effects of plasmids in Pseudomona aeruginosa PAO1. ISME J. 12(12):3014-3024.

Toll-Riera M*, San Millan A*, Wagner A, MacLean RC. (2016). The genomic basis of metabolic evolutionary innovation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS Genet. 12(5):e1006005.

Qin Q, Toll-Riera M, Heilbron K, Preston GM, MacLean RC. (2016). The  genomic basics of adaptation to the fitness cost of rifampicin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc Biol Sci. 283(1822).

San Millan A*, Toll-Riera M*, Qin Q, MacLean RC. (2015). Interactions between horizontally acquired genes create a fitness cost in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nat Commun. 6:6845.

San Millan A, Peña-Miller R*, Toll-Riera M*, Halbert ZV, McLean AR, Cooper BS, MacLean RC. (2014). Positive selection and compensatory adaptation interact to stabilize non-transmissible plasmids. Nat Commun. 5:5208.

Heilbron K, Toll-Riera M, Kojadinovic M, MacLean RC. (2014). Fitness is strongly influenced by rare mutations of large effect in a microbial mutation accumulation experiment. Genetics. 197(3):981-90.

Toll-Riera M, Albà M.M. (2013). Emergence of novel domains in proteins. BMC Evol Biol. 13:47.

Toll-Riera M, Bostick D, Albà M.M*, Plotkin J.B*. (2012). Structure and age jointly influence rates of protein evolution.PLoS Comput Bio. 8(5):e1002542.

Toll-Riera M, Radó-Trilla N, Martys F, Albà M.M. (2012). Role of low- complexity sequences in the formation of novel protein coding sequences. Mol Biol Evol. 29(3):883-6.

Toll-Riera M, Laurie S, Albà M.M. (2011). Lineage-specific variation in intensity of natural selection in mammals. Mol Biol Evol. 28(1):383-98.

Toll-Riera M, Bosch N, Bellora N, Castelo R, Armengol L, Estivill X, Albà M.M. (2009). Origin of primate orphan genes: a comparative genomics approach. Mol Biol Evol. 26(3):603-12.