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Proteomics Bioinformatician and Biostatistician in R/Pyython

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Dr. Joan Josep Bech Serra is a proteomics bioinformatician and biostatistician with extensive expertise in proteomics and oncology, with a particular focus on protein biochemistry, mass spectrometry, and data analysis. The relevance of his research is reflected in a strong publication record. In recent years, he has been involved in multiple proteomics and cancer research projects, where he has been responsible for the conception and execution of proteomic work packages. Among these contributions is his involvement in the Human Proteome Project, specifically in the annotation of the chromosome 16 proteome. He is currently engaged in the development of proteomics projects in both academia and the biotechnology industry. He is also active in dataset analysis and systems biology data integration, including phosphomotif enrichment, Gene Ontology (GO) term analysis, and network profiling.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Proteomics
• ★ Statistics
• ★ R
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Python

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Translation

Research Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute

October 2019 - Present

Senior Investigator

Institut d'Investigacio Biomedica de Bellvitge

July 2017 - October 2019

Senior Posdoctoral Investigator

Institut de Recerca Biomèdica

October 2015 - March 2017

Posdoctoral Investigator

Hospital Vall d'Hebron

January 2007 - December 2014

Education

Biology, Ph.D.

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

September 1996 - November 2006

Biology, BSc

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

September 1992 - June 1996

Certifications

• Google Data Analysis with Python

  Google

  https://coursera.org/share/1ed8d072f278ae68369055ce2107d2c7

  January 2026 - Present

• What is Data Science

  IBM

  https://coursera.org/share/fbe3632663c928c40f7c7eb65c4a7ee5

  January 2026 - Present

Publications

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Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Sara Sánchez-Serra, Mariona Chicón-Bosch, Núria Martorell-Villanueva, Eduardo Candeal, Ignasi Jarne-Sanz, Daniel Giménez-Llorente, Manuel Gris-Lorente, Paola Monaco, Laura Santana-Viera, et al. (2025). Integrative multi-omics reveals PARP14 as a key IFNγ-regulated mediator of metastatic progression in Ewing sarcoma .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Laura Planas-Serra, Mar Rodríguez-Ruiz, Eric Nathaniel Anderson, Agustí Rodríguez-Palmero, Valentina Vélez-Santamaria, Agatha Schlüter, Edgard Verdura, Gorka Gereñu, Andrés Jiménez-Zúñiga, Alejandro Iñañez, et al. (2025). Bi-allelic variants in the ribosomal protein RPS6KC1 cause a complex neurodevelopmental disorder . The American Journal of Human Genetics.

Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Sergi Segarra, Carolina de la Torre, Bernat Cucurull, Anna Marazuela-Duque, Alejandro Vaquero, Daniel Martínez-Puig, Javier Velasco-Alvarez (2025). The Discovery, Characterization, and Quantification of Bioactive Peptides Contained in Palbio Porcine Intestinal Mucosa Hydrolysate Products . International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Sergi Segarra, Carolina de la Torre, Bernat Cucurull, Anna Marazuela-Duque, Alejandro Vaquero, Daniel Martínez-Puig, Javier Velasco-Alvarez (2025). The Discovery, Characterization, and Quantification of Bioactive Peptides Contained in Palbio Porcine Intestinal Mucosa Hydrolysate Products . International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Elisa Molina Molina, Eloi Franco-Trepat, Ignasi Jarne, Daniel Perez-Zsolt, Roger Badia, Eva Riveira-Muñoz, Edurne Garcia-Vidal, Lluís Revilla, Sandra Franco, et al. (2025). Targeting eEF1A reprograms translation and uncovers broad-spectrum antivirals against cap or m6A protein synthesis routes . Nature Communications.

Andres Gamez-Garcia, Maria Espinosa-Alcantud, Alberto Bueno-Costa, Elisenda Alari-Pahissa, Anna Marazuela-Duque, Joshua K. Thackray, Chandni Ray, Clara Berenguer, Poonam Kumari, Joan Josep Bech, et al. (2024). A SIRT7-dependent acetylation switch regulates early B cell differentiation and lineage commitment through Pax5 . Nature Immunology.

Angelo D’Alessandro, Elena Krisnevskaya, Valentina Leguizamon, Ines Hernández, Carolina de la Torre, Joan-Josep Bech, Josep-Tomàs Navarro, Joan-Lluis Vives-Corrons (2024). SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Anemia—A Focus on RBC Deformability and Membrane Proteomics—Integrated Observational Prospective Study . Microorganisms.

Angelo D’Alessandro, Elena Krisnevskaya, Valentina Leguizamon, Ines Hernández, Carolina de la Torre, Joan-Josep Bech, Josep-Tomàs Navarro, Joan-Lluis Vives-Corrons (2024). SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Anemia—A Focus on RBC Deformability and Membrane Proteomics—Integrated Observational Prospective Study . Microorganisms.

Foltman M, Mendez I, Bech-Serra JJ, de la Torre C, Brace JL, Weiss EL, Lucas M, Queralt E, Sanchez-Diaz A (2023). TOR complex 1 negatively regulates NDR kinase Cbk1 to control cell separation in budding yeast . PLoS biology.

Rasti G, Becker M, Vazquez BN, Espinosa-Alcantud M, Fernández-Duran I, Gámez-García A, Ianni A, Gonzalez J, Bosch-Presegué L, Marazuela-Duque A, et al. (2023). SIRT1 regulates DNA damage signaling through the PP4 phosphatase complex . Nucleic acids research.

Ortiz-Barahona V, Soler M, Davalos V, García-Prieto CA, Janin M, Setien F, Fernández-Rebollo I, Bech-Serra JJ, De La Torre C, Guil S, et al. (2023). Epigenetic inactivation of the 5-methylcytosine RNA methyltransferase NSUN7 is associated with clinical outcome and therapeutic vulnerability in liver cancer . Molecular cancer.

Matas-Nadal C, Bech-Serra JJ, Gatius S, Gomez X, Ribes-Santolaria M, Guasch-Vallés M, Pedraza N, Casanova JM, de la Torre Gómez C, Garí E, et al. (2023). Biomarkers Found in the Tumor Interstitial Fluid may Help Explain the Differential Behavior Among Keratinocyte Carcinomas . Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP.

(2022). RhoA/ROCK2 signalling is enhanced by PDGF-AA in fibro-adipogenic progenitor cells: implications for Duchenne muscular dystrophy . Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle.

(2021). Inhibition of CBP synergizes with the RNA-dependent mechanisms of Azacitidine by limiting protein synthesis . Nature communications.

(2021). Antitumor Activity of the Novel BTK Inhibitor TG-1701 Is Associated with Disruption of Ikaros Signaling in Patients with B-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma . Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

(2020). Evaluation of Tumor Interstitial Fluid-Extraction Methods for Proteome Analysis: Comparison of Biopsy Elution versus Centrifugation . Journal of Proteome Research.

(2019). Epigenetic loss of RNA-methyltransferase NSUN5 in glioma targets ribosomes to drive a stress adaptive translational program . Acta Neuropathologica.

(2018). Aging-related tau astrogliopathy (ARTAG): not only tau phosphorylation in astrocytes . Brain Pathology.

(2018). SILAC-based phosphoproteomics reveals new PP2A-Cdc55-regulated processes in budding yeast . GigaScience.

(2018). “Exosomics”—A Review of Biophysics, Biology and Biochemistry of Exosomes With a Focus on Human Breast Milk . Frontiers in Genetics.

(2017). Disulfide driven folding for a conditionally disordered protein . Scientific Reports.

Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Victor Llombart, Teresa García-Berrocoso, Alba Simats, Alejandro Bustamante, Dolors Giralt, Gemma Reverter-Branchat, Francesc Canals, Mar Hernández-Guillamon, Joan Montaner(2016). Characterization of secretomes from a human blood brain barrier endothelial cells in-vitro model after ischemia by stable isotope labeling with aminoacids in cell culture (SILAC) . Journal of Proteomics. 133. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 100--112. Elsevier {BV}

(2015). Optimized Proteomic Mass Spectrometry Characterization of Recombinant Human μ-Opioid Receptor Functionally Expressed in Pichia pastoris Cell Lines . Journal of proteome research.

et al.(2014). A mouse model uncovers LKB1 as an UVB-induced DNA damage sensor mediating CDKN1A (p21WAF1/CIP1) degradation . PLoS Genetics.

(2014). Relevance of IGFBP2 proteolysis in glioma and contribution of the extracellular protease ADAMTS1 . Oncotarget.

Hugo Fraga, Joan-Josep Bech-Serra, Francesc Canals, Gabriel Ortega, Oscar Millet, Salvador Ventura(2014). The Mitochondrial Intermembrane Space Oxireductase Mia40 Funnels the Oxidative Folding Pathway of the CytochromecOxidase Assembly Protein Cox19 . Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289. (14). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 9852--9864. American Society for Biochemistry {\&} Molecular Biology ({ASBMB})

et al.(2014). Surfing transcriptomic landscapes. A step beyond the annotation of chromosome 16 proteome . Journal of proteome research.

et al.(2013). Guidelines for reporting quantitative mass spectrometry based experiments in proteomics . Journal of proteomics.

et al.(2013). A dominant-negative N-terminal fragment of HER2 frequently expressed in breast cancers . Oncogene.

(2012). Proteomic analysis of cerebrospinal fluid from obese women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a new approach for identifying new candidates in the pathogenesis of obesity . Journal of neuroendocrinology.

et al.(2011). Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 regulates ERK1/2 signal transduction amplitude and cell fate through CRAF . Science signaling.

(2011). ADAM17 (TACE) regulates TGFβ signaling through the cleavage of vasorin . Oncogene.

(2010). Cancer Degradomics: Semaphorin 3C Processing by ADAMTS1 Promotes Cell Migration . Journal of Biomolecular Techniques : JBT.

Nuria Colomé, Javier Collado, Joan J. Bech-Serra, Ingrid Liiv, Luis C. Antón, Pärt Peterson, Francesc Canals, Dolores Jaraquemada, Iñaki Alvarez(2010). Increased Apoptosis after Autoimmune Regulator Expression in Epithelial Cells Revealed by a Combined Quantitative Proteomics Approach . Journal of Proteome Research. 9. (5). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2600--2609. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

(2009). A multi-laboratory study assessing reproducibility of a 2D-DIGE differential proteomic experiment . Journal of Biomolecular Techniques : JBT.

et al.(2009). Very low-molecular-mass fragments of albumin in the plasma of patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis . American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation.

Carlos E. Rodríguez, José A. Arranz, Nuria Colomé, Joan J. Bech-Serra, Francesc Canals, Mireia Del Toro, Encarnació Riudor(2009). Proteomic analysis in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with atypical nonketotic hyperglycinemia and pulmonary hypertension - A pilot study . PROTEOMICS - Clinical Applications. 3. (12). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1430--1439. Wiley-Blackwell

Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Jesús García-Castillo, Kim Pedersen, Pier-Davide Angelini, Núria Colomé, Matthew Paul Cunningham, Josep Lluis Parra-Palau, Francesc Canals, José Baselga, Joaquín Arribas(2009). HER2 Carboxyl-terminal Fragments Regulate Cell Migration and Cortactin Phosphorylation . Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284. (37). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 25302--25313. American Society for Biochemistry {\&} Molecular Biology ({ASBMB})

Alex Lyakhovich, Joan J. Bech-Serra, Francesc Canals, Jordi Surralles(2009). Quick two-dimensional differential in gel electrophoresis-based method to determine length and secondary structures of telomeric DNA . Analytical Biochemistry. 384. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 356--358. Elsevier {BV}

Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Belén Santiago-Josefat, Cary Esselens, Joaquín Arribas(2007). Post-transcriptional Up-regulation of ADAM17 upon Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activation and in Breast Tumors . Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282. (11). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 8325--8331. American Society for Biochemistry {\&} Molecular Biology ({ASBMB})

(2006). Proteomic identification of desmoglein 2 and activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule as substrates of ADAM17 and ADAM10 by difference gel electrophoresis . Molecular and cellular biology.

Judit Anido, Maurizio Scaltriti, Joan Josep Bech Serra, Belén Santiago Josefat, Federico Rojo Todo, José Baselga, Joaquín Arribas(2006). Biosynthesis of tumorigenic HER2 C-terminal fragments by alternative initiation of translation . The EMBO Journal. 25. (13). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 3234--3244. Wiley-Blackwell

Joaquín Arribas, Joan J. Bech-Serra, Belén Santiago-Josefat(2006). ADAMs, cell migration and cancer . Cancer and Metastasis Reviews. 25. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 57--68. Springer Nature

Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Sonia Martínez-Arca, Miguel Hurtado-Küttner, Aldo Borroto, Joaquín Arribas(2005). Recycling of Cell Surface Pro-transforming Growth Factor-α Regulates Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activation . Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280. (44). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 36970--36977. American Society for Biochemistry {\&} Molecular Biology ({ASBMB})

Teresa Villanueva de la Torre, Joan J. Bech-Serra, Soraya Ruiz-Paz, Josep Baselga, Joaquı́n Arribas(2004). Inactivating mutations block the tumor necrosis factor-α-converting enzyme in the early secretory pathway . Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 314. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1028--1035. Elsevier {BV}