User:Juan M. Pedraza

Contact Info



 * Juan Manuel Pedraza Leal
 * University of the Andes
 * Carrera 1 N° 18A - 12
 * Biophysics Lab, IP404
 * Bogotá, Colombia, South America
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

My lab is in the Biophysics Group, part of the Physics Department at the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Research Interests
Stochasticity in gene expression and signaling Phenotypic variability as survival strategy Control in synthetic genetic circuits Evolution of social behaviour (for now, in microorganisms) Anomalous diffusion, symbolic dynamics and hamiltonian chaos

Education
Harvard University, Boston, MA Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Systems Biology, 2006-10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA                                                      Ph.D. in Physics, Feb. 2006. University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia B.Sc. in Mathematics (4 year program), 2000. B.Sc. in Physics (5 year program), 1999.

Publications
Sci2 Effects of molecular memory and bursting on fluctuations in gene expression J.M. Pedraza and J. Paulsson Science, 319, 339 (2008).

Nat

Stochastic gene expression out-of-steady-state in the cyanobacterial circadian clock J.R. Chabot, J.M. Pedraza, P. Luitel and A. van Oudenaarden Nature, 450, 1249 (2007).

PNAS

Predicting stochastic gene expression dynamics in single cells J.T. Mettetal, D. Muzzey, J.M. Pedraza, E.M. Ozbudak and A. van Oudenaarden PNAS USA, 103, 7304, (2006).

Book1

Noise in gene regulatory networks J. M. Pedraza and A. van Oudenaarden In Complex Systems Science in BioMedicine (Springer, New York, 2006).

Sci1

Noise propagation in gene networks J. M. Pedraza and A. van Oudenaarden Science, 307,1965 (2005).

PRE

Non regular languages in the kicked rotor P.-M. Binder and J. M. Pedraza Physical Review E, 62, R5883 (2000).

AJP

An invertibility paradox P.-M. Binder, J. M. Pedraza, and S. Garzon. American Journal of Physics, 67, 1091 (1999)

Useful links

 * Biophysics Group at Uniandes: http://biofisica.uniandes.edu.co/
 * Paulsson Lab at Harvard: http://paulsson.med.harvard.edu/
 * vanOudenaarden Lab at MIT: http://web.mit.edu/biophysics