Santiago F. Elena
Evolutionary Virology and Systems Group
Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP)
National Research Council (CSIC)
I got my Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Valencia in
1995. I have done research stays at the University of California
San Diego and Michigan State University. After my return from the United States
in 1998 I joined the Department of Genetics at the University of Valencia. Since
July 2002 I am a Research Professor at CSIC in the IBMCP and since
July 2008 I am also at the Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico, USA). The
European Molecular Biology Organization awarded me with the prize of
Young Investigator Programme in 2005.
I am author of more than 100 research papers in prestigious international journals
(Rev. Annu.. Ecol. Evol. Syst., Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, FASEB J., PLoS, Nature,
Nature Genetics, Nature Rev. Genetics, Science ...) and my
research focuses on the study of the mechanisms that generate and
maintain the great genetic diversity of microorganisms and more
specific RNA viruses. For this, I use the theoretical framework provided
for population genetics and experimental methodology of
molecular Virology.
Jesús Picó
I am a control engineer fascinated with the world of systems and synthetic biology.
I lead the group of Control of Complex Systems at the Universitat Politècnica de València, where I am Professor of Automatic Control. Our main interests are
in robust possibilistic estimation of metabolic fluxes, possibilistic flux balance analysis, nonlinear feedback control techniques applied to synthetic biology,
and nonlinear distributed feedback control applied to coordination of multi-cellular systems.
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