Personal Information
Email: guillermo.pdelpulgar@upm.es
Phone: 0034 913366907
RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST
Synthetic and systems biology:
-Design, engineering and analysis of synthetic gene circuits.
-Artificial cell-to-cell communication with emphasis on horizontal gene transfer.
-Emergence of global behavior from simple rules.
-Robustness and new unique features of distributed multicellular designs.
-Features and flexibility for the end user of circuits designed in a modular way.
RESEARCH SUMMARY
My research aims to discover robust distributed cellular circuits to process huge amount of information in parallel in a delocalized manner.
Since the information is encoded in DNA strands all the current projects are based on horizontal gene transfer (HGT). This cell-to-cell communication in which our partners are world class experts allowed a large amount of signaling without crosstalk maintaining circuit robustness. With the correct design this biological feature enables the parallel computation of a huge amount of data just by defining simple intra-cell behaviors.
BIOGRAPHY
Master in Artificial Intelligence, 2011-2012
Univ.Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Master in Biophysics, 2010-2011.Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Bachelor of Science in Physics, 2005-2010.Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
OTHER SKILLS
Programing: Fortran, C, C++, Linux, Matlab an XPP
English: Fluent level
German: Bilingual. Excellent written and oral communication skills
Spanish: Bilingual. Excellent written and oral communication skills