Alfonso Jaramillo's Group
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I've always been fascinated by the complexity of biological matter and my long-term goal is to be able to engineer it for useful purposes (e.g. medicine, energy…). Although our current biological knowledge is very primitive, I believe that we already have enough information to build interesting biological devices and systems provided we use computers to assemble and digest all current biological data. In the biology of the future, science and engineering will completely mix, the mathematical equations will be replaced by computational algorithms and it will be the converging point of all disciplines. Therefore, I'm interested in developing designing either new proteins or new genetic pathways that will be experimentally tested in vivo. I want to apply this to different engineering projects such as constructing new synthetic metabolic pathways, new enzymes, or new modified organisms able to produce useful chemicals for society. Recently this work has been classified as "Synthetic Biology". We use and develop methodologies from several disciplines, such as physics, engineering, chemistry, mathematics or computer science. You can find more deatils on my research here.
In this site you can find reprints, job openings, contact information, bioinformatics teaching materials among many other things.
The Laboratoire de Biochimie (BIOC) is a mixed research unit belonging to
the École Polytechnique and the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) in Palaiseau (France). The École Polytechnique is an excellence center among the
top in Europe (in a recent review by The Times (http://www.thes.co.uk/downloads/rankings/world-rankings-16pages.pdf), it was
chosen as the most prestigious academic institution in France, and ranked
sixth among all European universities).
About Us
We are seeking people to join us (Internships/Stagieres, graduate students, postdocs,
visiting professors...) from any field of science (physics, engineering, chemistry, mathematics, computer science...) with very good mathematical and
computational skills. It is not necessary a previous experience with biology but a strong motivation to learn it on the way. We are
also seeking collaborations with molecular biology experimentalists. If you are interested, you can contact me at
Work with us!Alfonso.Jaramillo_at_polytechnique.fr.
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Last modified on 16 November 2007.