Alfonso Jaramillo's Group

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Alfonso Jaramillo's group members (Feb 2009)

Prof. Alfonso Jaramillo, PI
Alfonso.Jaramillo AT synth-bio.org,
Alfonso.Jaramillo AT polytechnique.edu

Prof. Alfonso Jaramillo received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Valencia (1999). He conducted postdoctoral research in computational biology at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (1999- 2002,), Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (2002) and Harvard University (2003). In September 2003 he joined the biochemistry faculty of the Ecole Polytechnique as Maitre de Conferences (tenured since September 2005). He co-developed the DESIGNER software for computational protein design, as well as other computational biology tools for use in structural and systems biology. His teaching responsibilities at the Ecole Polytechnique include the bioinformatics Master (together with Prof. Simonson). His group consists on two PhD students and two postdoctoral fellows. He is coordinator of the EU FP6-NEST synthetic biology consortium on biohydrogen production from solar energy using a synthetic biology approach, and participant in the FP6-NEST synthetic biology project EMERGENCE. He has also been awarded the MIT-France Seed fund 2006-2007, with Prof. Prather (MIT, USA), for the design of a glucaric acid production pathway in E. Coli. He is also funded by an Alliance 2006-2007 project, with Prof. Banta (Columbia U., USA), to design new enzymes for biofuel cells. He has published 34 refereed articles and conference proceedings. He participates into two grants form Spain Ministry (MEC), "Componentes de nueva generacion para la explotacion eficiente de infraestructuras grid en eciencia (ngGrid)". Reference: TIN2006-12890. Coordinator: Vicente Hernandez-Garcia (UPV, Valencia), and, "Ingenieria de Proteinas". Reference: BIO2006-07332. Coordinator: Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz (U. Granada). He is member of the editorial board of the IET Synthetic Biology journal. He has lead the iGEM2006 team of Valencia (Spain), who obtained an award. His research interests involve several aspects of synthetic biology, including protein and enzyme design, metabolic engineering and systems biology (by incorporating various high-throughput -omic data into a modelisation framework).

Dr. Maria Suarez, postdoc
Maria.Suarez AT synth-bio.org

She received her B.Sc. (1999) and her M. Sc (2001) in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her Ph.D. thesis was obtained, in the same university in 2006, and dealt with thermodynamics in String Theory.

Vijai Singh, Postdoc
vijaisingh15 AT gmail.com



Guillermo Rodrigo, External PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Santiago Elena, IBMCP, Valencia)
Guillermo.Rodrigo AT synth-bio.org

He has received his B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) in 2006, following the last year at Ecole Polytechnique (France).

Javier Carrera, External PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Santiago Elena, IBMCP, Valencia)
Javier.Carrera AT synth-bio.org

Mr. Javier Carrera has received his B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) in 2007, following the last year at Royal Technology Institute (KTH, Sweden) where he did his master thesis. He is currently following his PhD with with Prof. Alfonso Jaramillo and Prof. Santiago Elena (IBMCP, Valencia).

Filipe Pinto, External PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Paula Tamagnini, IBMC, Porto, Portugal)
fvpinto AT ibmc.up.pt



Daniel Camsund, External PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Peter Lindblad, U. Uppsala, Sweeden)
daniel.camsund AT gmail.com



Boris Kirov, Graduate Student
Boris.Kirov AT epigenomique.genopole.fr



Thomas Landrain, Graduate Student
thomas.landrain AT mac.com



Bogdana Burlacu, Technician
burlacu AT epigenomique.genopole.fr

Mariel Montesinos, Administrative Assistant
Mariel.Montesinos AT synth-bio.org

Ms. Mariel Montesinos is specialized in international trade and organization of work. She has worked in different companies in Spain and Belgium in the field of logistics and international trade. She has worked at the logistics office of the Direction of Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique since September 2005 until January 2007. Currently she is working as assistant to Prof. Jaramillo at the Ecole Polytechnique, where she is in charge of the administrative tasks related to research proposal preparation, submission and project management. She is also responsible for the organization of meetings, coordination of travel, monitoring of resource usage and costs and general administrative task related to the group development. Her linguistic skills (fluent English, French and maternal Spanish and Catalan) allows her to maintain a communication infrastructure to ensure smooth flow of information with different collaborators.

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