Xesus Abalo
Researcher
Department of Medical Sciences
Uppsala Biomedical Centre
Sweden
Biography
Dr. Xesus Abalo is affiliated to Department of Medical Sciences at Uppsala Biomedical Cente, Sweden. Currently providing services as Researcher. Authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed scientific papers and presented works at many national and International conferences. Contributions from his work have acclaimed recognition from honourable subject experts around the world. Actively associated with different societies and academies. His academic career is decorated with several reputed awards and funding. He got his PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia-Spain) studiyng the lamprey CNS development. After that, got a postdoc position at the Karolinska Institute studiyng the basal ganglia connections related to locomotion, also in lampreys. In 2010 he joined Dan's lab where he worked on the evolution of vertebrate vision using zebrafish as a model.
Research Interest
Clinical diabetology and metabolism
Publications
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Lagman, D., Sundström, G., Ocampo Daza, D., Abalo, X., Larhammar, D. (2012). Expansion of transducin subunit gene families in early vertebrate tetraploidizations. Genomics, 100(4): 203-211
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Lagman, D., Daza, D., Widmark, J., Abalo, X., Sundström, G. et al. (2013). The vertebrate ancestral repertoire of visual opsins, transducin alpha subunits and oxytocin/vasopressin receptors was established by duplication of their shared genomic region in the two rounds of early vertebrate genome duplications. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13: 238-
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Lagman, D., Callado-Perez, A., Franzen, I., Larhammar, D., Abalo, X. (2015). Transducin Duplicates in the Zebrafish Retina and Pineal Complex: Differential Specialisation after the Teleost Tetraploidisation. PLoS ONE, 10(3)
