Josue Barrera

11/2022-present.                  Humboldt Research Fellow, “Tracking down the evolution and functional integration of de novo emerged genes in brown algae”. Host researcher: Susana M. Coelho, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen.

04/2021-10/2022.                Postdoctoral Research Fellow, “Evolution of sex chromosomes in brown algae (Phaeophyceae)”. Supervised by Prof. Susana M. Coelho, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.

08/2015-09/2020.                Ph.D., “Genomic evolution and domestication of pumpkins (Cucurbita ssp.)”. Supervised by Prof. Luis E. Eguiarte, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

09/2012-07/2015.                Undergraduate research assistant, “Molecular evolution of tree ferns (Cyatheaceae)”. Supervised by Prof. Luis E. Eguiarte and Prof. Santiago Ramírez Barahona, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

10/2009-09/2014.                Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Bachelor’s degree in Biology (Biologist).

• Member of the Alexander von Humboldt society
• Member of the Mexican Scientific Society of Ecology (SCME)
• External postdoc representative of the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen (term 2022)

1.    Manley, B.F., Lotharukpong, S.J., Barrera-Redondo, J., Yildirir, G., Sperschneider, J., Corradi, N., Paszkowski, U., Minska, E.A., Dallaire, A.* (2023): A highly contiguous genome assembly reveals sources of genomic novelty in the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. G3, 13(6), jkad077.

2.   Barrera-Redondo, J.*, Lotharukpong, S.J., Drost, H-G.*, Coelho, S.M.* (2023): Uncovering gene-family founder events during major evolutionary transitions in animals, plants and fungi using GenEra. Genome Biology, 24, 54.

3.   Heesch, S., Serrano‐Serrano, M., Barrera‐Redondo, J.*, Luthringer, R., Peters, A.F., Destombe, C., Cock, J.M., Valero, M., Roze, D., Salamin, N., Coelho, S.M.* (2021): Evolution of life cycles and reproductive traits: insights from the brown algae. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(7), 992-1009.

4.   Martínez-González, C., Castellanos-Morales, G.*, Barrera-Redondo, J., Sánchez-de la Vega, G., Hernández-Rosales, H.S., Gasca-Pineda, J., Aguirre-Planter, E., Moreno-Letelier, A., Escalante, A.E., Montes-Hernández, S., Lira-Saade, R.*, Eguiarte, L.E.* (2021): Recent and historical gene flow in cultivars, landraces, and a wild taxon of Cucurbita pepo in Mexico. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 307.

5.   Barrera-Redondo, J.*, Sanchez-de La Vega, G., Aguirre-Liguori, J.A., Castellanos-Morales, G., Gutiérrez-Guerrero, Y.T., Aguirre-Dugua, X., Aguirre-Planter, E., Tenaillon, M.I., Lira-Saade, R.*, Eguiarte, L.E.* (2021): The domestication of Cucurbita argyrosperma as revealed by the genome of its wild relative. Horticulture Research, 8, 109.

6.   Barrera-Redondo, J., Lira-Saade, R., Eguiarte, L.E.* (2020): Gourds and tendrils of Cucurbitaceae: how their shape diversity, molecular and morphological novelties evolved via whole-genome duplications. Molecular Plant, 13(8), 1108-1110.

7.   Barrera-Redondo, J., Piñero, D., Eguiarte, L.E.* (2020): Genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic tools to study the domestication of plants and animals: a field guide for beginners. Frontiers in Genetics, 11, 742.

8.   Vazquez-Rosas-Landa, M., Ponce-Soto, G.Y., Aguirre-Liguori, J.A., Thakur, S., Scheinvar, E., Barrera-Redondo, J., Ibarra-Laclette, E., Guttman, D.S., Eguiarte, L.E., Souza, V.* (2020): Population genomics of Vibrionaceae isolated from an endangered oasis reveals local adaptation after an environmental perturbation. BMC Genomics, 21(1), 418.

9.   Gutiérrez-Guerrero, Y.T., Ibarra-Laclette, E., Barrera-Redondo, J., Ortega, J., Rebollar, E.A., Martínez del Río, C., León-Paniagua, L., Urrutia, A.O., Eguiarte, L.E.* (2020): Genomic consequences of dietary diversification and parallel evolution due to nectarivory in leaf-nosed bats. GigaScience, 9(6), giaa059.

10.Barrera-Redondo, J., Hernández-Rosales, H.S., Cañedo Torres, D.V., Aréstegui Alegria, K., Torres-Guevara, J., Parra, F., Torres-García, I., Casas, A.* (2020): Variedades locales y criterios de selección de especies domesticadas del género Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) en los Andes Centrales del Perú: Tomayquichua, Huánuco [Landrace diversity and local selection criteria of domesticated squashes and gourds (Cucurbita) in the central Andean mountain range of Peru: Tomayquichua, Huánuco]. Botanical Sciences, 98(1), 101-116.

11.Aguirre-Dugua, X.*, Castellanos-Morales, G., Paredes-Torres, L.M., Hernández-Rosales, H.S., Barrera-Redondo, J., Sanchez-de la Vega, G., Tapia-Aguirre, F., Ruiz-Mondragón, K.Y., Scheinvar, E., Hernández, P., Aguirre-Planter, E., Montes-Hernández, S., Lira-Saade, R.*, Eguiarte, L.E.* (2019): Evolutionary Dynamics of Transferred Sequences Between Organellar Genomes in Cucurbita. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 87(9-10), 327-342.

12.Barrera-Redondo, J., Ibarra-Laclette, E., Vázquez-Lobo, A., Gutiérrez-Guerrero, Y.T., Sánchez de la Vega, G., Piñero, D., Montes-Hernández, S., Lira-Saade, R.*, Eguiarte, L.E.* (2019): The genome of Cucurbita argyrosperma (silver-seed gourd) reveals faster rates of protein-coding gene and long noncoding RNA turnover and neofunctionalization within Cucurbita. Molecular Plant, 12(4), 506-520.

13.Blaz, J., Barrera-Redondo, J., Vázquez-Rosas-Landa, M., Canedo-Téxon, A., Aguirre von Wobeser, E., Carrillo, D., Stouthamer, R., Eskalen, A., Villafán, E., Alonso-Sánchez, A., Lamelas, A., Ibarra-Juarez, L., Pérez-Torres, C., Ibarra-Laclette, E.* (2019): Genomic signals of adaptation towards mutualism and sociality in two ambrosia beetle complexes. Life, 9(1), 2.

14.Eguiarte, L.E.*, Hernández-Rosales, H.S., Barrera-Redondo, J., Castellanos-Morales, G., Paredes-Torres, L.M., Sánchez-de la Vega, G., Ruiz-Mondragón, K.Y., Vázquez-Lobo, A., Montes-Hernández, S., Aguirre-Planter, E., Souza, V., Lira, R.* (2018): Domesticación, diversidad y recursos genéticos y genómicos de México: El caso de las calabazas [Domestication, diversity, genetic and genomic resources of Mexico: The case of pumpkins]. TIP Revista Especializada en Ciencias Químico-Biológicas, 21(S2), 85-101.

15.Castellanos-Morales, G., Paredes-Torres, L.M., Gámez, N., Hernández-Rosales, H.S., Sánchez-de la Vega, G., Barrera-Redondo, J., Aguirre-Planter, E., Vázquez-Lobo, A., Montes-Hernández, S., Lira-Saade, R., Eguiarte, L.E.* (2018): Historical biogeography and phylogeny of Cucurbita: Insights from ancestral area reconstruction and niche evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 128, 38-54.

16.Barrera-Redondo, J., Ramírez-Barahona, S., Eguiarte, L.E.* (2018): Rates of molecular evolution in tree ferns are associated with body size, environmental temperature, and biological productivity. Evolution, 72(5), 1050-1062.

17.Ramírez-Barahona, S.*, Barrera-Redondo, J., Eguiarte, LE. (2016): Rates of ecological divergence and body size evolution are correlated with species diversification in scaly tree ferns. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1834), 20161098.

08/2021-12/2022                  Co-supervisor of Carla Sofia Reis Guerra: “Unravelling the role of High Mobility Group (HMG) domain gene (Ec-13_001750) in sex determination of Ectocarpus brown alga” (Master thesis, Universidade do Porto).

05/2018-06/2018                  Teacher at the Introductory workshop on Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Institute of Ecology UNAM.

02/2016-05/2016                  Teaching assistant for the postgraduate course “Advanced Evolution” at the Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas UNAM (64-hour course).

02/2015-04/2015                  Invited lecturer for the Introductory course on Next Generation Sequencing at the Institute of Ecology UNAM.