Alba Camino-Mera

Bioinformatician

"You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around. You turn yourself around, that's what it's all about"

- Todd Chavez, BoJack Horseman

I graduated in Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) in 2020. That same year, I enrolled in the Master's Degree in Bioinformatics applied to Health Sciences at the University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain). Thanks to it, I was able to discover a new branch of biology that I was passionate about.

During my academic training, I had the opportunity to work in centres such as the Galician Institute for Agrobiological Research (IIAG-CSIC) and the Centre for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Disease (CIMUS).

Currently, I am still training and learning at the Instituto de Investigaciones de Santiago (IDIS) in the GenPoB research group.

Alba

Publications within the group

  • 2025
    • Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Alba Camino-Mera, Xabier Bello, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Lúa Castelo-Martínez, Conrado Martínez-Cadenas, Federico Martinón-Torres and Antonio Salas (2025). Whole-Genome Sequencing in Galicia Reveals Male-Biased Pre-Islamic North African Ancestry, Subtle Population Structure, and Microgeographic Patterns of Disease Risk. FASEB Journal; 39(24):e71253. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202502634R
  • 2024
    • Camino-Mera, Alba; Pardo-Seco, Jacobo; Bello, Xabier; Argiz, Laura; Boyle, Robert J.; Custovic, Adnan; Herberg, Jethro; Kaforou, Myrsini; Arasi, Stefania; Fiocchi, Alessandro; Pecora, Valentina; Barni, Simona; Mori, Francesca; Bracamonte, Teresa; Echeverria, Luis; O'Valle-Aísa, Virginia; Hernández-Martínez, Noelia Lara; Carballeira, Iria; García, Emilio; Garcia-Magan, Carlos; Moure-González, José Domingo; Gonzalez-Delgado, Purificación; Garriga-Baraut, Teresa; Infante, Sonsoles; Zambrano-Ibarra, Gabriela; Tomás-Pérez, Margarita; Machinena, Adrianna; Pascal, Mariona; Prieto, Ana; Vázquez-Cortes, Sonia; Fernández-Rivas, Montserrat; Vila, Leticia; Alsina, Laia; Torres, María José; Mangone, Giusi; Quirce, Santiago; Martinón-Torres , Federico; Vázquez-Ortiz, Marta; Gómez-Carballa, Alberto; Salas, Antonio (2024). Whole Exome Sequencing Identifies Epithelial and Immune Dysfunction-Related Biomarkers in Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome. Clinical & Experimental Allergy; 54(11):919-929. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.14564
  • 2023
    • Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Laura Navarro, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Xabier Bello, Sara Pischedda, Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Alba Camino-Mera, María José Currás, Isabel Ferreirós, Narmeen Mallah, Sara Rey-Vázquez, Lorenzo Redondo, Ana Dacosta-Urbieta, Fernando Caamaño-Viña, Irene Rivero-Calle, Carmen Rodriguez-Tenreiro, Federico Martinón-Torres & Antonio Salas (2023). Music compensates for altered gene expression in age-related cognitive disorders. Scientific Reports; 13(1):21259. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48094-5
    • Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Xabier Bello, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Alba Camino-Mera, Sara Pischedda, María José Currás-Tuala, Irene Rivero-Calle, Ana Dacosta, Fernando Caamaño-Viña, Carmen Rodríguez-Tenreiro, Isabel Cifuentes, Cristina Méndez, Chiea Chuen Khor, Federico Martinón-Torres, Antonio Salas, the CAPPRIC study group (2023). Whole exome sequencing identifies new susceptibility candidates underlying community-acquired pneumonia. Genes & Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2023.101170
    • Alberto Gómez-Carballa, María José Currás-Tuala, Sara Pischedda, Miriam Cebey-López, José Gómez-Rial, Irene Rivero-Calle, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Xabier Bello, Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Antonio Justicia-Grande, Julián Montoto-Louzao, Alba Camino-Mera, Isabel Ferreirós-Vidal, Máximo Fraga, José R. Antúnez, Rodolfo Gómez, Federico Martinón-Torres and Antonio Salas (2023). Multi-tissue transcriptomics of a unique monozygotic discordant twin case of severe progressive osseous heteroplasia. Genes & Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2023.05.001
    • Navarro, Laura, Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, Pischedda, Sara, Montoto-Louzao, Julián, Viz-Lasheras, Sandra, Camino-Mera, Alba, Hinault, Thomas, Martinón-Torres, Federico and Salas, Antonio (2023). Sensogenomics of music and Alzheimer’s disease: An interdisciplinary view from neuroscience, transcriptomics, and epigenomics. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience; 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2023.1063536