Institution: EBD
Research Groups: Computational Biology at EBD
Position: Tenured Scientist at CSIC
Home page: https://fortunalab.org
Contact email: fortuna@ebd.csic.es
BCB Committee: Outreach
BCB Community: No communities assigned.
BCB Tools: Avida: a digital evolution software platform for studying evolution, OntoAvida, avidaR
BCB Services:
Research topics: Microbial Communities, Population dynamics, Ecological modelling, Evolutionary modelling, Phylogenetic Analysis, Systems Biology, Deep Learning in Biology, Knowledge graphs, Bioinformatics education, FAIRfication, Biological Databases, Biological Ontologies, Data Repositories, Analysis packages (R, Python, etc.), Web-service, Cloud Computing, Containers Computing, High-performance Computing
Biography: Miguel is a computational biologist who tries to harness evolution by engineering species interactions to help fight human diseases. After several years of postdoctoral stages at Princeton (USA) and Zurich (Switzerland), he currenly works as a Group Leader at the Doñana Biological Station (EBD), a research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located in Seville (Spain).
Publications
Ortega, R., Wulff, E., & Fortuna, M. A. (2023). Ontology for the Avida digital evolution platform. Scientific Data, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02514-3
Ortega, R., & Fortuna, M. A. (2023). avidaR: an R library to perform complex queries on an ontology-based database of digital organisms. PeerJ Computer Science, 9, e1568. Portico. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1568
Gomes, S. I. F., Fortuna, M. A., Bascompte, J., & Merckx, V. S. F. T. (2022). Mycoheterotrophic plants preferentially target arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that are highly connected to autotrophic plants. New Phytologist, 235(5), 2034–2045. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18310
Fortuna, M. A. (2022). The phenotypic plasticity of an evolving digital organism. Royal Society Open Science, 9(9). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220852
Fortuna, M. A., Beslon, G., & Ofria, C. (2022). Editorial: Digital evolution: Insights for biologists. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1037040
Fortuna, M. A., Nagavci, A., Barbour, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2020). Partner Fidelity and Asymmetric Specialization in Ecological Networks. The American Naturalist, 196(3), 382–389. https://doi.org/10.1086/709961
Losapio, G., Fortuna, M. A., Bascompte, J., Schmid, B., Michalet, R., Neumeyer, R., Castro, L., Cerretti, P., Germann, C., Haenni, J., Klopfstein, S., Ortiz‐Sanchez, F. J., Pont, A. C., Rousse, P., Schmid, J., Sommaggio, D., & Schöb, C. (2019). Plant interactions shape pollination networks via nonadditive effects. Ecology, 100(3). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2619
Cámara-Leret, R., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2019). Indigenous knowledge networks in the face of global change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(20), 9913–9918. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821843116
Fortuna, M. A., Barbour, M. A., Zaman, L., Hall, A. R., Buckling, A., & Bascompte, J. (2019). Coevolutionary dynamics shape the structure of bacteria‐phage infection networks. Evolution, 73(5), 1001–1011. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13731
Yang, X., Yan, C., Zhao, Q., Holyoak, M., Fortuna, M. A., Bascompte, J., Jansen, P. A., & Zhang, Z. (2018). Ecological succession drives the structural change of seed-rodent interaction networks in fragmented forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 419–420, 42–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.023
Melián, C. J., Matthews, B., de Andreazzi, C. S., Rodríguez, J. P., Harmon, L. J., & Fortuna, M. A. (2018). Deciphering the Interdependence between Ecological and Evolutionary Networks. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33(7), 504–512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.04.009
Fortuna, M. A., Zaman, L., Wagner, A., & Bascompte, J. (2017). Non-adaptive origins of evolutionary innovations increase network complexity in interacting digital organisms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1735), 20160431. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0431
Deschepper, P., Brys, R., Fortuna, M. A., & Jacquemyn, H. (2017). Analysis of spatial genetic variation reveals genetic divergence among populations of Primula veris associated to contrasting habitats. Scientific Reports, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09154-9
Saavedra, S., Rohr, R. P., Fortuna, M. A., Selva, N., & Bascompte, J. (2016). Seasonal species interactions minimize the impact of species turnover on the likelihood of community persistence. Ecology, 97(4), 865–873. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-1013.1
Lavabre, J. E., Gilarranz, L. J., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2016). How does the functional diversity of frugivorous birds shape the spatial pattern of seed dispersal? A case study in a relict plant species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1694), 20150280. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0280
Barbour, M. A., Fortuna, M. A., Bascompte, J., Nicholson, J. R., Julkunen-Tiitto, R., Jules, E. S., & Crutsinger, G. M. (2016). Genetic specificity of a plant–insect food web: Implications for linking genetic variation to network complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(8), 2128–2133. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513633113
Rodewald, A. D., Rohr, R. P., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2015). Does removal of invasives restore ecological networks? An experimental approach. Biological Invasions, 17(7), 2139–2146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0866-7
Melián, C. J., Seehausen, O., Eguíluz, V. M., Fortuna, M. A., & Deiner, K. (2015). Diversification and biodiversity dynamics of hot and cold spots. Ecography, 38(4), 393–401. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01162
Pilosof, S., Fortuna, M. A., Cosson, J.-F., Galan, M., Kittipong, C., Ribas, A., Segal, E., Krasnov, B. R., Morand, S., & Bascompte, J. (2014). Host–parasite network structure is associated with community-level immunogenetic diversity. Nature Communications, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6172
Rodewald, A. D., Rohr, R. P., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2014). Community‐level demographic consequences of urbanization: an ecological network approach. Journal of Animal Ecology, 83(6), 1409–1417. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12224
Pilosof, S., Fortuna, M. A., Vinarski, M. V., Korallo‐Vinarskaya, N. P., & Krasnov, B. R. (2013). Temporal dynamics of direct reciprocal and indirect effects in a host–parasite network. Journal of Animal Ecology, 82(5), 987–996. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12090
Fortuna, M. A., Zaman, L., Wagner, A. P., & Ofria, C. (2013). Evolving Digital Ecological Networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 9(3), e1002928. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002928
Albert, E. M., Fortuna, M. A., Godoy, J. A., & Bascompte, J. (2013). Assessing the robustness of networks of spatial genetic variation. Ecology Letters, 16(s1), 86–93. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12061
Krasnov, B. R., Fortuna, M. A., Mouillot, D., Khokhlova, I. S., Shenbrot, G. I., & Poulin, R. (2012). Phylogenetic Signal in Module Composition and Species Connectivity in Compartmentalized Host-Parasite Networks. The American Naturalist, 179(4), 501–511. https://doi.org/10.1086/664612
Fortuna, M. A., Krishna, A., & Bascompte, J. (2012). Habitat loss and the disassembly of mutalistic networks. Oikos, 122(6), 938–942. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00042.x
Fortuna, M. A., Bonachela, J. A., & Levin, S. A. (2011). Evolution of a modular software network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(50), 19985–19989. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1115960108
Fortuna, M. A., Stouffer, D. B., Olesen, J. M., Jordano, P., Mouillot, D., Krasnov, B. R., Poulin, R., & Bascompte, J. (2010). Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin? Journal of Animal Ecology, 79(4), 811–817. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01688.x
Fortuna, M. A., Popa-Lisseanu, A. G., Ibáñez, C., & Bascompte, J. (2009). The roosting spatial network of a bird‐predator bat. Ecology, 90(4), 934–944. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0174.1
Fortuna, M. A., Albaladejo, R. G., Fernández, L., Aparicio, A., & Bascompte, J. (2009). Networks of spatial genetic variation across species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(45), 19044–19049. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907704106
Rezende, E. L., Albert, E. M., Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2009). Compartments in a marine food web associated with phylogeny, body mass, and habitat structure. Ecology Letters, 12(8), 779–788. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01327.x
Fortuna, M. A., García, C., Guimarães Jr., P. R., & Bascompte, J. (2008). Spatial mating networks in insect‐pollinated plants. Ecology Letters, 11(5), 490–498. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01167.x
Jovani, R., & Fortuna, M. A. (2007). The shape of the past in the World Wide Web: Scale-free patterns and dynamics. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 385(2), 683–688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2007.07.023
Selva, N., & Fortuna, M. A. (2007). The nested structure of a scavenger community. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274(1613), 1101–1108. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0232
Fortuna, M. A., & Melián, C. J. (2007). Do scale-free regulatory networks allow more expression than random ones? Journal of Theoretical Biology, 247(2), 331–336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.03.017
Fortuna, M. A., Gómez-Rodríguez, C., & Bascompte, J. (2006). Spatial network structure and amphibian persistence in stochastic environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1592), 1429–1434. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3448
Fortuna, M. A., & Bascompte, J. (2006). Habitat loss and the structure of plant–animal mutualistic networks. Ecology Letters, 9(3), 281–286. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00868.x
Penteriani, V., A. Fortuna, M., J. Melián, C., Otalora, F., & Ferrer, M. (2006). Can prey behaviour induce spatially synchronic aggregation of solitary predators? Oikos, 113(3), 497–505. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.14547.x
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Funding:
- Evolving phages by engineering ecological interactions to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. National. 11/10/2022 - 30/06/2025.
