Luis Arturo Medrano-Soto

Luis Arturo Medrano Soto

Hello all!

    I am a researcher on computational genomics. In 2005 I joined the group of Dr. David Eisenberg at the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics located on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California.

    My research areas of interest are Comparative Genomics, Lateral Genomics, Functional Genomics, Structural Genomics, Genome Annotation, Transcriptional regulation, analysis of genetic-metabolic networks, Molecular Evolution, Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Bayesian Statistics, Data mining and knowledge discovery.

    You can see my resume here.

My background.

I got my Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering at the Chihuahua's Institute of Technology (ITCH), after that, I got a master's degree; in Electronics Engineering (also at ITCH) and majored in Computer Science. Then I moved to Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, where I got my PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences (with major in Computational Genomics) at CCG -UNAM. My PhD thesis title was: On codon usage, translatability, gene expression, and horizontal gene transfer: Have we overinterpreted our model organisms? (it is written in Spanish). You can download it here.

My current work.

I'm working on several research lines:

Automated approaches to protein function prediction.
Data mining and knowledge discovery in heterogeneous biological databases. In particular, a Bayesian approach to cluster analysis of microarray data combined with genetic information on the genomic regulatory network of Escherichia coli.
Gene prediction and genome annotation in Prokaryotes. The CCG-UNAM reported the complete genome sequence of Rhizobium etli, and our group at the CCG was in charge of creating the computational infrastructure necessary for annotating the genome.
Comparative genomics. I'm interested on studying the conservation of biological functional and structural properties across genomes, which includes but is not limited to operon organization, regulatory interactions, synteny, horizontal gene transfer and others.
Molecular evolution. I've worked on the study about the nature of horizontal gene transfer events immediately upon introgression, and its corresponding implications on our current knowledge.
The relationship among codon usage, tRNA concentrations and expression levels.

And of course I'm willing to explore more fields of the fascinating world of biological sciences.

My Hobbies

I love music (jazz, blues, country, rock, classic, bossanova, bolero, samba, and so on), playing guitar, singing, dancing (specially Salsa and Tango), martial arts, gymnastics, learning foreign languages, traveling, movies and reading.

My favorite links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua	If you want to know more about Chihuahua, don't forget to visit this site.
http://www.yucatan.com.mx/ http://www.notimex.com.mx/	If you want to be informed about what's going on in Mexico, take a look at this (Spanish-English).
http://www.baga.co.uk/ http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/	I like gymnastics, these are sites I visit very often.
http://www.germanfortravellers.com/	If you are into languages, here is an online German course.

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