Francisco 'Paco' Esteban Ruiz
Paco, as he is known by his colleagues and friends, joined the Computational Biology Initiative in March, 2007, as a visiting researcher with financial support from Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian Regional Government in Spain). After receiving a grant from the Ministry of Education (within the Spanish Government) as a visiting professor, he will return to CBI in September, 2007, for nine months of intensive collaboration.
Paco has taught Cellular and Molecular Biology and Histology at the University of Jaén (Spain) since 1995, and has been Assistant Professor in Cellular Biology at the same university since 2002. He has a Ph.D. in Biology and a Master in Neurosciences and Behavioral Biology, and has published more than 50 papers in fields including molecular biology of DNA replication, mechanisms of oxidative stress in plants, cellular and molecular biology and histology of the central and peripheral nervous system -- including aging and neurodegeneration.
He is now mainly interested in applied biomathematics and computational biology and has applied fractal dimension calculations to detect changes in normal-appearing white matter in multiple sclerosis. Presently, he is collaborating with different groups modeling biological processes such as plant-soil relationships, vital cycles of parasite/host in wild goats, dynamics of DNA transcription bubbles, system dynamics of tumor/immune evasion, systems biology of endometrial receptivity and blastocyst implantation, and molecular networks of multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. At the CBI, Paco is contributing his background in biology and collaborating on analyzing molecular networks of autism and related neurodegenerative diseases.
His lab website can be found here:
http://biosystems.ujaen.es/
About our Lab
Our lab is interested in computational approaches to understanding biological function and the genetic basis of diseases. Our work falls into three interrelated aims.
- Predicting functional network organization of the cell
- Network scale analysis of complex multigenic disorders
- Autworks: decoding the genotype-phenotype map for Autism
Recent blog posts
- mining the text to quicken autism research
- new species of moth discovered in Hawaii
- Dr. Dennis Wall in Children's Hospital News
- MSU national autism study
- Dennis Wall is now a member of Faculty of 1000
- Call for Papers -- Evolutionary Bioinformatics
- connecting diseases through the phenotyic disease network
- Dennis Wall is a "scientist to watch"
- autistic children express themselves in 3D with assistance from Google
- number of genome-wide association studies rising fast
Science News - Biology and Nature
- A year after discovery, Congo's 'mother lode' of gorillas remains vulnerable
- Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed
- Rescuing male turkey chicks
- New discovery about the formation of new brain cells
- Time of day matters to thirsty trees, U of T researcher discovers
- New chameleon species discovered in East Africa
- Killer fungus threatening amphibians
- New research shows versatility of amniotic fluid stem cells
- It's a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants
- Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water