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M.Sc. Eng., Pedro Madrigal
E-mail: pmad@igr.poznan.pl
Telephone: (+48 61) 65 50 234
Department of Biometry and Bioinformatics
Biometry and Bioinformatics Team
Specialisation: Statistics for Next generation sequencing (NGS) data, Functional Data
Analysis, ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, RNA-seq
Research profile
Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow in Bioinformatics.
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Research in statistical and bioinformatic concepts relevant to next-generation
sequence (NGS) data in a plant context.
Evaluation of existing bioinformatic tools.
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Development and optimization of statistical bioinformatics methodology and
algorithms.
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Contributor to Bioconductor open software project for Bioinformatics.
National and international grants
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EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network SYSFLO
Project no: 237909
Project title: Systems Biology Applied to Flowering (SYSFLO)
Project coordinator: Prof. Brendan Davies, Leeds University
Project leader at IPG PAS: Prof. Paweł Krajewski
Duration: 2010-2013
Web: www.sysflo.eu
International fellowships / trainings
5th International Ph.D. School in Plant Development, 25th 28th September 2012, Certosa di
Pontignano, Siena, Italy.
Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Statistical and bioinformatic analysis of ultrahighthroughput sequencing data in Arabidopsis, costs of the stay covered by the COST Action
TD0801 StatSeq. Host institution: Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 721 May 2012.
SYSFLO ESR Training Course on Grant Writing, February 3rd 2012, World Trade Center,
Grenoble, France.
ESR Training Course on Getting published and Completing your PhD, September 7-9 2011,
University of Leeds, UK. Q&A with Prof Cathie Martin, Editor-in-Chief for Plant Cell (ASPB).
Training stay, May 23-27 2011, Plant Research International and Wageningen University,
The Netherlands. Host: Dr. Kerstin Kaufmann (Gerco Angenent’s Group).
Applied Bioinformatics in Plant Sciences, Training School, December 13-17 2010, Athens,
Greece. Supported by the COST Actions FA0604, TD0801 and FA0806, and by the EU FP7
Project TriticeaeGenome.
ESR Training Course on Gene Regulation Analysis Tools and IP-Commercialization,
November 25-26 2010, BIOBASE GmbH headquarters, Wolfenbuettel, Germany.
VIII Poznan Summer School of Bioinformatics, July 2010, Faculty of Biology, Adam
Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Projects Management, February 2009, Polytechnical University of Cartagena , Murcia, Spain
Basic Acquisition Techniques and Processing of Biosignals on Discapacity and Health, July
2008, Centre of Applied Biomedical Engineering for the Integration of the Disabled (CIBID),
Cartagena, Spain
International co-operation
Prof Brendan Davies, University of Leeds
Prof Gerco Angenent, Plant Research International, Wageningen
Prof Lucia Colombo, University of Milan
Prof George Coupland, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding
Prof Robert Sablowski, John Innes Centre
Dr Birgit Lewicki-Potapov, BIOBASE
Prof Pawel Krajewski, Polish Academy of Sciences
Prof Yves Van de Peer, VIB
Dr Aalt-Jan van Dijk, Plant Research International, Wageningen
Papers
Madrigal P., Krajewski P. (2012). Current bioinformatic approaches to identify DNase I
hypersensitive sites and genomic footprints from DNase-seq data. Front. Gene. 3: 230.
Madrigal P. (2012). Flowering and plant development at the 38th Spanish Society of
Genetics Congress, Murcia, 2011. J. Plant Growth Regul. 31(1): 136-138.
Madrigal P., Sela N., Lin S.M. (2011). PLoS Computational Biology Conference Postcards
from ISMB/ECCB 2011. PLoS Comput. 7(11): e1002259.