Joaquín Goñi
Dr. Joaquín Goñi joined the Computational Biology Initiative for half a year in 2006 and 2007, as a visiting researcher.
Joaquín earned his Masters in Computer Science from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 2003 and earned his PhD from the Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics - University of Navarra (Spain) in 2008.
His research has been focused on improving the understanding of complex systems by means of Graph Theory and other Computer Science related techniques. This included a wide variety of applied issues and data sources, such as gene expression, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and neuropsychological evaluation (with a special focus on verbal fluency tests). They all shared a common aim of understanding systems optimization and robustness and its impairment in different neurodegenerative processes. Additionally, part of his research is towards the development of new hierarchical and modular measurements for graphs or complex networks.
His dissertation can be downloaded at:
http://departamento.fisica.unav.es/Investigacion/Tesis/Goni.pdf
In 2009 he joined the Functional Neuroimaging Lab, directed by M.A. Pastor, for a post-doc position (http://www.cima.es/labs-en/neuroimaging/summary/2). There, he keeps studying cognitive related systems at both theoretical and applied levels and at the same time is entering into the field of brain functional networks.
During 2008/09 he is an assistant profesor at the University of Navarra (www.unav.es), where his is teaching subjects related to programming and bioinformatics.
He maintains active collaborations with a number of research groups, including Wall lab - CBMI, Complex Sytems Lab - UPF (Ricard V. Solé) and Neuroimmunology Lab - IDIBAPS (Pablo Villoslada).
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
- Dr. 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
- skateboarding
- New NLP tools
Science News - Biology and Nature
- Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others
- Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease
- Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed
- DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
- Genomes of biofuel yeasts reveal clues that could boost fuel ethanol production worldwide
- CU-Boulder map of human bacterial diversity shows wide interpersonal differences
- Horse genome sequence and analysis published in Science
- Caught in the act: Butterfly mate preference shows how 1 species can become 2
- Study reveals how plants and bacteria 'talk' to thwart disease
- Why nice guys usually get the girls