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Description

Juan Manuel Pedraza Systems Biology Department Harvard Medical School 200 Longwood Ave Boston, MA 02115 firstname_lastname AT hms.harvard.edu

Research Interests

Stochasticity in signalling and gene expression
Phenotypic variability as survival strategy
Control in synthetic genetic circuits
Evolution of social behaviour (for now, in microorganisms)
Anomalous diffusion, symbolic dynamics and hamiltonian chaos

Education

Harvard University , Boston, MA

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Systems Biology, 2006-

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Ph.D. in Physics, Feb. 2006.

University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia

B.Sc. in Mathematics (4 year program), 2000.

B.Sc. in Physics (5 year program), 1999.

Publications

1. Effects of molecular memory and bursting on fluctuations in gene expression
   

                  J.M. Pedraza and J. Paulsson
   
                  Science, 319, 339  (2008).
   

2. Stochastic gene expression out-of-steady-state in the cyanobacterial circadian clock
   

                  J.R. Chabot, J.M. Pedraza, P. Luitel and A. van Oudenaarden
   
                  Nature, 450, 1249 (2007).
   

3. Predicting stochastic gene expression dynamics in single cells
   

      J.T. Mettetal, D. Muzzey, J.M. Pedraza, E.M. Ozbudak and A. van Oudenaarden
   
      PNAS USA, 103, 7304, (2006).
   

4. Noise in gene regulatory networks
   

                 J. M. Pedraza and A. van Oudenaarden
   
                 In Complex Systems Science in BioMedicine (Springer, New York,  2006).
   

5. Noise propagation in gene networks
   

                 J. M. Pedraza and A. van Oudenaarden
   
                 Science, 307,1965 (2005).
   

6. Non regular languages in the kicked rotor
   

                 P.-M. Binder and J. M. Pedraza 
   
                 Physical Review E, 62, R5883 (2000).
   

7. An invertibility paradox
   

                 P.-M. Binder, J. M. Pedraza, and S. Garzon. 
   
                 American Journal of Physics, 67, 1091 (1999)