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
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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
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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)
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