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Paulsson Lab |
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Paulsson Lab |
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Department of Systems Biology |
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Harvard Medical School |
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Department of Systems Biology |
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Harvard Medical School |
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Research Fellow |
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Research Fellow |
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E-mail: abc@asd.com |
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Juan M. Pedraza, Ph.D. |
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Phone: 617 432 6437 |
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I am currently studying the biochemical basis of social behavior, specifically the conditions under which competition between individuals and competition between groups balance each other. Our model system is the competition between plasmids inside bacteria, as a model for the selection on symbiotes and parasites in general but where we know what each gene is doing. For this study we are also developing measurement techniques to determine plasmid, mRNA and protein numbers inside individual cells, as well as a setup for doing long term evolution experiments at constant density. These studies should help us handle bugs that use complex strategies like persistence or quorum dependent virulence. I did my PhD in Biophysics with Alex van Oudenaarden’s Systems Biology Lab, part of the Physics Department at MIT. I was studying stochastic gene expression in genetic circuits. I got here eight years ago from Colombia, where I received a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Math from the Universidad de los Andes at Bogotá. There I worked on chaos in hamiltonian systems. Here’s my C.V. and a link to my old webpage. |
