Natalia Blay

Graduated in veterinary medicine from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2013, with an average grade of 7.39. Consequently, I studied a Master's Degree in Advanced Genetics at the same university, with an average grade of 8.8, and did my master's thesis, entitled "Genetic and functional analysis of lipid metabolism genes in pigs", at the Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (GRAG). Finally, I decided to continue my studies in the field of bioinformatics, studying the Master's in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in 2017, with an average grade of 9.5, and did my master's thesis, entitled "Reconstructing pedigrees using RNA-Seq data", at the IGTP in 2018, where I would continue working as a bioinformatician and publishing the article "Assessment of kinship detection using RNA-seq data" in Nucleic Acids Research in 2019 as first author. That same year I started working at the GCAT (IGTP) as a bioinformatician, where I still work, and in 2021 I started my PhD, entitled "Genetic determinants of disease trajectories and multimorbid clusters in adulthood. A Population based cohort analysis".