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E-mail: miroslav.gasparek15@imperial.ac.uk | |||
GitHub: [https://github.com/MiroGasparek MiroGasparek] | |||
Twitter: [https://twitter.com/MiroGasparek @MiroGasparek] | |||
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Before joining the Endy Lab, I worked in the Murray Lab at Caltech in the summer of 2017, and Tanaka Group at Imperial College London in the summer of 2016. | Before joining the Endy Lab, I worked in the Murray Lab at Caltech in the summer of 2017, and Tanaka Group at Imperial College London in the summer of 2016. | ||
==Education== | |||
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* 2019 (expected), MEng Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London | |||
* 2015, Maturita Final Exam, Sukromne Gymnazium Zilina, Slovakia | |||
==Research interests== | |||
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<p> '''1. Essential Unknowns:''' <br /> | |||
''Identification of the function of essential unknown genes in the minimal genome using protein-protein interaction network.'' <br /> | |||
One of the factors determining the success of the effort to build an artificial cell is our ability to characterize and understand the function of the genes essential for the viability of life. The smallest viable living organism, JCVI-syn3.0 contains 473 genes, of which 149 is of unknown function. My specific research goal is to facilitate our understanding of the function of these essential (and quasi-essential) genes for life through the experimental development of the protein-protein interaction network of the JCVI-syn3.0 and computational investigation of the properties of the unknown essential genes. </p> | |||
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<p> '''2. PUREity of expression:''' <br /> | |||
''Investigation of the function of essential unknown genes of minimal genome using cell-free expression in PURE system.'' <br /> | |||
The advances in the cell-free synthetic biology enabled us to quickly prototype various genetic circuits using cell free extracts, such as PURE system or TX-TL. ''In-vitro'' expression of the genome of JCVI-syn3.0 in a cell-free PURE system could give us the information about the interactions between the products of these genes and hence help us identify their functions. Alternatively, the individual expression of the genes of the minimal genome could provide us with knowledge about the reaction kinetics of the essential unknown genes and therefore assist us in determination of their function, for instance, by comparison of the reaction kinetics of unknown genes to the reaction kinetics of the other genes with known functions. </p> | |||
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''' 3. How do they click together?''' <br /> | |||
'' Computational and mathematical investigation of the input/output behavior of the interconnected cell-free biomolecular subsystems.''' <br /> | |||
The complex biomolecular systems suffer from the problems arising due to mutual interactions of the species in different subsystems, such as retroactivity and resource competition. During my internship in the Murray Lab at Caltech, I have started developing ''BioSIMI'', a MATLAB framework for the simple input/output modelling of interconnected biomolecular subsystems, particularly applicable to the TX-TL reactions. The framework still needs a lot of work - feel free to join me at [https://github.com/MiroGasparek/BioSIMI GitHub]! </p> | |||
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==Resources== | |||
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