I just finished my PhD in BioPhysics, working with the Van Oudenaarden
Biophysics
Research Group, part of the Physics Department at MIT.
I've switched to the dark side (Harvard) for a postdoc with Johan
Paulsson's group at the Department of Systems Biology at the
Harvard Medical School.
I was studying stochastic gene expression and genetic
circuits,
that is, making bugs that glow in the dark.
You can read about it in "Noise
propagation in gene networks", Pedraza and van Oudenaarden, Science, 307, 1965 (2005).
I'm now looking into group selection and the evolution of altruism.
This should tell me how to handle bugs that use complex strategies like
persistence or quorum dependent virulence.
I got here six years ago from Colombia,
where I received a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Math from the Universidad
de los Andes at Bogotá.
There I worked on chaos in hamiltonian systems, that is, studying
bouncing balls on screwy floors.
These are pictures of Boston with some friends from colombia
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These are pictures of some of my spanish friends
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Last updated: 1/7/2006
