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Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez – Curriculum Vitae

Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez

Contact information

Staff Scientist NCBI, NLM, NIH
Computational Biology Branch
Building 38A, Room 6S614M
8600 Rockville Pike, MSC 6075
Bethesda, MD 20894-6075
Voice: +1 (301) 402-3708
E-mail: marino@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Education

1997 – 2002 Ph.D. Biochemistry. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX.
1988 – 1992 B.Sc. Microbiology. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Research Articles

  1. Gonzalez S, Harvey RB, Scott HM, Lawhon SD, Vinasco J, Mariño-Ramírez L, Norman KN. (2019) Whole-Genome Sequences of Salmonella enterica Serovar I 4,[5],12:i:- Isolates from Swine. Microbiol Resour Announc. 8(21). pii: e00223-19. [PubMed] [PDF]
  2. Gamez RM, Rodríguez F, Vidal NM, Ramirez S, Vera Alvarez R, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2019) Banana (Musa acuminata) transcriptome profiling in response to rhizobacteria: Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Bs006 and Pseudomonas fluorescens Ps006. BMC Genomics. 20(1):378. [PubMed] [PDF]
  3. Norris ET, Wang L, Conley AB, Rishishwar L, Mariño-Ramírez L, Valderrama-Aguirre A, Jordan IK. (2018) Genetic ancestry, admixture and health determinants in Latin America. BMC Genomics. 19(Suppl 8):861 [PubMed] [PDF]
  4. Vera Alvarez R, Pongor LS, Mariño-Ramírez L, Landsman D. (2018) TPMCalculator: one-step software to quantify mRNA abundance of genomic features. Bioinformatics. bty896. [PubMed] [PDF]
  5. Medina-Cordoba LK, Chande AT, Rishishwar L, Mayer LW, Mariño-Ramírez L, Valderrama-Aguirre LC, Valderrama-Aguirre A, Kostka JE, Jordan IK. (2018) Genome Sequences of 15 Klebsiella sp. Isolates from Sugarcane Fields in Colombia's Cauca Valley. Genome Announc. 6(12). pii: e00104-18. [PubMed] [PDF]
  6. Conley AB, Rishishwar L, Norris ET, Valderrama-Aguirre A, Mariño-Ramírez L, Medina-Rivas MA, Jordan IK. (2017) A Comparative Analysis of Genetic Ancestry and Admixture in the Colombian Populations of Chocó and Medellín. G3 (Bethesda). 7:3435-3447. [PubMed] [PDF]
  7. Hernández-Fernández J, Pinzón A, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2017) De novo transcriptome assembly of loggerhead sea turtle nesting of the Colombian Caribbean. Genom Data. 13:18-20. [PubMed] [PDF]
  8. Vera Alvarez R, Medeiros Vidal N, Garzón-Martínez GA, Barrero LS, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2017) Workflow and web application for annotating NCBI BioProject transcriptome data. Database (Oxford) 2017: bax008. doi: 10.1093/database/bax008. [PubMed] [PDF]
  9. Hernández-Fernández J, Pinzón A, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2017) De novo transcriptome assembly of loggerhead sea turtle nesting of the Colombian Caribbean. Genom Data. 13:18-20. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2017.06.005. [PubMed] [PDF]
  10. Rishishwar L, Wang L, Clayton EA, Mariño-Ramírez L, McDonald JF, Jordan IK. (2017) Population and clinical genetics of human transposable elements in the (post) genomic era. Mob Genet Elements. 7:1-20. doi: 10.1080/2159256X.2017.1280116. [PubMed] [PDF]
  11. Wang L, Rishishwar L, Mariño-Ramírez L, Jordan IK. (2017) Human population-specific gene expression and transcriptional network modification with polymorphic transposable elements. Nucleic Acids Res. pii: gkw1286. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1286. [PubMed] [PDF]
  12. Watve SS, Chande AT, Rishishwar L, Mariño-Ramírez L, Jordan IK, Hammer BK. (2016) Human population-specific gene expression and transcriptional network modification with polymorphic transposable elements. Genome Announc. pii: e01396-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01396-16. [PubMed] [PDF]
  13. Acevedo-Luna N, Mariño-Ramírez L, Halbert A, Hansen U, Landsman D, Spouge JL. (2016) Most of the tight positional conservation of transcription factor binding sites near the transcription start site reflects their co-localization within regulatory modules. BMC Bioinformatics. 17:479. [PubMed] [PDF]
  14. Rishishwar L, Mariño-Ramírez L, Jordan IK. (2016) Benchmarking computational tools for polymorphic transposable element detection. Brief Bioinform. pii: bbw072. [PubMed] [PDF]
  15. Medina-Rivas MA, Norris ET, Rishishwar L, Conley AB, Medrano-Trochez C, Valderrama-Aguirre A, Vannberg FO, Mariño-Ramírez L, Jordan IK. (2016) Chocó, Colombia: a hotspot of human biodiversity. Rev Biodivers Neotrop. 6:45-54. [PubMed] [PDF]
  16. Duplat-Bermúdez L, Ruiz-Medrano R, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L, Xoconostle-Cázares B. (2016) Dataset of Arabidopsis plants that overexpress FT driven by a meristem-specific KNAT1 promoter. Data Brief. 8:520-528. [PubMed] [PDF]
  17. Duplat-Bermúdez L, Ruiz-Medrano R, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L, Xoconostle-Cázares B. (2016) Transcriptomic analysis of Arabidopsis overexpressing flowering locus T driven by a meristem-specific promoter that induces early flowering. Gene. 587:120-131. [PubMed] [PDF]
  18. Gamez RM, Rodríguez F, Ramírez S, Gómez Y, Agarwala R, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2016) Genome Sequence of the Banana Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens PS006. Genome Announc. 4(3): e00329-16. [PubMed] [PDF]
  19. Draizen EJ, Shaytan AK, Mariño-Ramírez L, Talbert PB, Landsman D, Panchenko AR. (2016) HistoneDB 2.0: a histone database with variants—an integrated resource to explore histones and their variants. Database (Oxford). pii: baw014. [PubMed] [PDF]
  20. Bernal JF, Donado-Godoy P, Valencia MF, León M, Gómez Y, Rodríguez F, Agarwala R, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2016) Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Campylobacter coli Isolates from the Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Program in Colombia. Genome Announc. 4(2): e00131-16. [PubMed] [PDF]
  21. Bernal JF, Donado-Godoy P, Arévalo A, Duarte C, Realpe ME, Díaz PL, Gómez Y, Rodríguez F, Agarwala R, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2016) Whole-Genome Sequence of Multidrug-Resistant Campylobacter coli Strain COL B1-266, Isolated from the Colombian Poultry Chain. Genome Announc. 4(2): e00130-16. [PubMed] [PDF]
  22. Gamez RM, Rodríguez F, Bernal JF, Agarwala R, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2015) Genome Sequence of the Banana Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens BS006. Genome Announc. 3(6): e01391-15. [PubMed] [PDF]
  23. Garzón-Martínez GA, Osorio-Guarín JA, Delgadillo-Durán P, Mayorga F, Enciso-Rodríguez FE, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L, Barrero LS. (2015) Genetic diversity and population structure in Physalis peruviana and related taxa based on InDels and SNPs derived from COSII and IRG markers. Plant Gene. 4:29-37. [PubMed] [PDF]
  24. Donado-Godoy P, Bernal JF, Rodríguez F, Gomez Y, Agarwala R, Landsman D, Mariño-Ramírez L. (2015) Genome Sequences of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Paratyphi B (dT+) and Heidelberg Strains from the Colombian Poultry Chain. Genome Announc. 3(5): e01265-15. [PubMed] [PDF]
  25. Maya-Hoyos M, Leguizamón J, Mariño-Ramírez L, Soto CY. (2015) Sliding Motility, Biofilm Formation, and Glycopeptidolipid Production in Mycobacterium colombiense Strains. Biomed Res Int. 2015:419549. [PubMed] [PDF]
  26. Gladney LM, Katz LS, Knipe KM, Rowe LA, Conley AB, Rishishwar L, Mariño-Ramírez L, Jordan IK, Tarr CL. (2014) Genome Sequences of Vibrio navarrensis, a Potential Human Pathogen. Genome Announc. 2(6): e01188-14. [PubMed] [PDF]
  27. Jjingo, D., Conley, A. B., Wang, J., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Lunyak, V. V. and Jordan IK. (2014) Mammalian-wide interspersed repeat (MIR)-derived enhancers and the regulation of human gene expression. Mob DNA. 5:14. [PubMed] [PDF]
  28. Spouge, J. L., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Sheetlin, S. L. (2014) Searching for repeats, as an example of using the generalised Ruzzo-Tompa algorithm to find optimal subsequences with gaps. Int J Bioinform Res Appl. 10:384-408. [PubMed] [PDF]
  29. González-Pérez, M., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Parra-López, C. A., Murcia, M. I., Marquina, B., Mata-Espinoza, D., Rodriguez-Míguez, Y., Baay-Guzman, G.J. , Huerta-Yepez, S. and Hernandez-Pando, R. (2013) Virulence and immune response induced by Mycobacterium avium complex strains in a model of progressive pulmonary tuberculosis and subcutaneous infection in BALB/c mice. Infect Immun. 81:4001-4012. [PubMed] [PDF]
  30. Deng, T., Zhu, Z. I., Zhang, S., Leng, F., Cherukuri, S., Hansen, L., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Meshorer, E., Landsman, D. and Bustin, M. (2013) HMGN1 Modulates Nucleosome Occupancy and DNase I Hypersensitivity at the CpG Island Promoters of Embryonic Stem Cells. Mol Cell Biol. 33:3377-3389. [PubMed] [PDF]
  31. Enciso-Rodríguez, F. E., González, C., Rodríguez, E. A., López, C. E., Landsman, D., Barrero, L. S. and Mariño-Ramírez, L. (2013) Identification of Immunity Related Genes to Study the Physalis peruviana - Fusarium oxysporum Pathosystem. PLoS One. 8:e68500. [PubMed] [PDF]
  32. Novoa-Aponte, L., León-Torres, A., Patiño-Ruiz, M., Cuesta-Bernal, J., Salazar, L. M., Landsman, D., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Soto, C. Y. (2012) In silico identification and characterization of the ion transport specificity for P-type ATPases in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. BMC Struct Biol. 12:25. [PubMed] [PDF]
  33. Hansen, L., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Landsman, D. (2012) Differences in local genomic context of bound and unbound motifs. Gene. 506:125-134. [PubMed] [PDF]
  34. Kostka J. E., Green S. J., Rishishwar L., Prakash O., Katz L. S., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Jordan I. K., Munk C., Ivanova N., Mikhailova N., Watson D. B., Brown S. D., Palumbo A. V. and Brooks S. C. (2012) Genome sequences for six rhodanobacter strains, isolated from soils and the terrestrial subsurface, with variable denitrification capabilities. J Bacteriol. 194:4461-4462. [PubMed] [PDF]
  35. Spouge, J. L. and Mariño-Ramírez, L. (2012) The practical evaluation of DNA barcode efficacy. Methods Mol Biol. 858:365-377. [PubMed] [PDF]
  36. Garzón-Martínez, G. A., Zhu, I., Landsman, D., Barrero, L. S. and Mariño-Ramírez, L. (2012) The Physalis peruviana leaf transcriptome: assembly, annotation and gene model prediction. BMC Genomics. 13:151. [PubMed] [PDF]
  37. Heibel, S. K., Lopez, G. Y., Panglao, M., Sodha, S., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Tuchman, M. and Caldovic, L. (2012) Transcriptional regulation of N-acetylglutamate synthase. PLoS One. 7:e29527. [PubMed] [PDF]
  38. Hansen, L., Kim, N. K., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Landsman, D. (2011) Analysis of Biological Features Associated with Meiotic Recombination Hot and Cold Spots in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS One. 6:e29711. [PubMed] [PDF]
  39. Huda, A., Tyagi, E., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Bowen, N. J., Jjingo, D. and Jordan, I. K. (2011) Prediction of Transposable Element Derived Enhancers Using Chromatin Modification Profiles. PLoS One. 6:e27513. [PubMed] [PDF]
  40. Simbaqueba, J., Sánchez, P., Sanchez, E., Núñez Zarantes, V. M., Chacon, M. I., Barrero, L. S. and Mariño-Ramírez, L. (2011) Development and Characterization of Microsatellite Markers for the Cape Gooseberry Physalis peruviana. PLoS One. 6:e26719. [PubMed] [PDF]
  41. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Levine, K. M., Morales, M., Zhang, S., Moreland, R. T., Baxevanis, A. D. and Landsman D. (2011) The Histone Database: an integrated resource for histones and histone fold-containing proteins. Database (Oxford): bar048. [PubMed] [PDF]
  42. González-Pérez, M., Murcia, M. I., Landsman, D., Jordan, I. K. and Mariño-Ramírez, L. (2011) Genome Sequence of the Mycobacterium colombiense Type Strain, CECT 3035. J. Bacteriol. 193:5866-5867. [PubMed] [PDF]
  43. Jjingo, D., Huda, A., Gundapuneni, M., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Jordan, I. K. (2011) Effect of the transposable element environment of human genes on gene length and expression. Genome Biol Evol. 3:259-271. [PubMed] [PDF]
  44. Valderrama-Aguirre, A., Zúñiga-Soto, E., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Moreno, L. A., Escalante, A. A., Arévalo-Herrera, M. and Herrera, S. (2011) Polymorphism of the Pv200L Fragment of Merozoite Surface Protein-1 of Plasmodium vivax in Clinical Isolates from the Pacific Coast of Colombia. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 84(2_Suppl), 2011, pp. 64-70. [PubMed] [PDF]
  45. Huda, A., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Jordan, I. K. (2010) Epigenetic histone modifications of human transposable elements: genome defense versus exaptation. Mob DNA. 1:2. [PubMed] [PDF]
  46. Hansen, L., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Landsman, D. (2010) Many sequence-specific chromatin modifying protein-binding motifs show strong positional preferences for potential regulatory regions in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. Nucleic Acids Research. 38:1772-1779.[PubMed] [PDF]
  47. Wang, J., Bowen, N. J., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Jordan, I. K. (2009) A c-Myc regulatory subnetwork from human transposable element sequences. Mol Biosyst. 5:1831-1839. [PubMed] [PDF]
  48. Huda, A., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Landsman, D. and Jordan, I. K. (2009) Repetitive DNA elements, nucleosome binding and human gene expression. Gene. 436:12-22. [PubMed] [PDF]
  49. Ogurtsov, A. Y., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Johnson, G. R., Landsman, D., Shabalina, S. A. and Spiridonov, N. A. (2008) Expression patterns of protein kinases correlate with gene architecture and evolutionary rates. PLoS One. 3:e3599. [PubMed] [PDF]
  50. Kim, N-K., Tharakaraman, K., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Spouge, J. L. (2008) Finding sequence motifs with Bayesian models incorporating positional information: an application to transcription factor binding sites. BMC Bioinformatics. 9:262. [PubMed] [PDF]
  51. Polavarapu, N., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Landsman, D., McDonald, J. F. and Jordan, I. K. (2008) Evolutionary rates and patterns for human transcription factor binding sites derived from repetitive DNA. BMC Genomics. 9:226. [PubMed] [PDF]
  52. Tharakaraman, K., Bodenreider, O., Landsman, D., Spouge, J. L. and Mariño-Ramírez, L. (2008) The biological function of some human transcription factor binding motifs varies with position relative to the transcription start site. Nucleic Acids Research. 36:2777-2786. [PubMed] [PDF]
  53. Resch, A. M., Carmel, L., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Ogurtsov, A. Y., Shabalina, S. A., Rogozin, I. B. and Koonin, E. V. (2007) Widespread Positive Selection in Synonymous Sites of Mammalian Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24:1821-1831. [PubMed] [PDF]
  54. Piriyapongsa, J., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Jordan, I. K. (2007) Origin and evolution of human microRNAs from transposable elements. Genetics. 176:1323-1337. [PubMed] [PDF]
  55. Riz I., Akimov S. S., Eaker S. S., Baxter K. K., Lee H. J., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Landsman D., Hawley T. S. and Hawley R. G. (2007) TLX1/HOX11-induced hematopoietic differentiation blockade. Oncogene. 26:4115-4123. [PubMed] [PDF]
  56. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Jordan, I. K. and Landsman, D. (2006) Multiple independent evolutionary solutions to core histone gene regulation. Genome Biology. 7:R122. [PubMed] [PDF]
  57. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Bodenreider, O., Kantz, N. and Jordan, I. K. (2006) Co-evolutionary Rates of Functionally Related Yeast Genes. Evolutionary Bioinformatics. 2:295-300. [PubMed] [PDF]
  58. Tsaparas, P., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Bodenreider, O., Koonin, E. V. and Jordan, I. K. (2006) Global similarity and local divergence in human and mouse gene co-expression networks. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 6:70. [PubMed] [PDF]
  59. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Tharakaraman, K., Sheetlin, S. L., Landsman, D. and Spouge, J. L. (2006) Scanning sequences after Gibbs sampling to find multiple occurrences of functional elements. BMC Bioinformatics. 7:408. [PubMed] [PDF]
  60. Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Jordan, I. K. (2006) Transposable element derived DNaseI-hypersensitive sites in the human genome. Biology Direct. 1:20. [PubMed] [PDF]
  61. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Hsu, B., Baxevanis, A. D. and Landsman, D. (2006) The Histone Database: a comprehensive resource for histones and histone fold-containing proteins. Proteins. 62:838-842.[PubMed] [PDF]
  62. Eriksson, P. R., Mendiratta, G., McLaughlin, N. B., Wolfsberg, T. G., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Pompa, T. A., Jainerin, M., Landsman, D., Shen, C-H. and Clark, D. J. (2005) Global regulation by the yeast Spt10 protein is mediated through chromatin structure and the histone UAS elements. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25:9127-9137. [PubMed] [PDF]
  63. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Tharakaraman, K., Sheetlin, S., Landsman, D. and Spouge, J. L. (2005) Alignments anchored on genomic landmarks can aid in the identification of regulatory elements. Bioinformatics. 21 Suppl 1:i440-i448. [PubMed] [PDF]
  64. Jordan, I. K., Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Koonin, E. V. (2005) Evolutionary significance of gene expression divergence. Gene. 345:119-126.[PubMed] [PDF]
  65. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Spouge, J. L., Kanga, G. C. and Landsman, D. (2004) Statistical analysis of over-represented words in human promoter sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 32:949-958. [PubMed] [PDF]
  66. Jordan, I. K., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Wolf, Y. I. and Koonin, E. V. (2004) Conservation and co-evolution in the scale-free human gene co-expression network. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21:2058-2070. [PubMed] [PDF]
  67. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Minor, J. L., Reading, N. and Hu, J. C. (2004) Identification and mapping of self-assembling protein domains encoded by the Escherichia coli K-12 genome using lambda repressor fusions. J. Bacteriol. 186:1311-1319. [PubMed] [PDF]
  68. Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Hu, J. C. (2002) Isolation and mapping of self-assembling protein domains encoded by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. Yeast. 19:641-650. [PubMed] [PDF]
  69. Mariño-Ramírez, L. (1997) Clonación del gen de la cápside proteica de una cepa colombiana del virus del mosaico del pepino (CMV) para su expresión en plantas por transformación mediante Agrobacterium. Revista Corpoica 2:58-59. [PDF]
  70. Hernández Fernández, J., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Orozco Cárdenas, M. L. y Narváez Vásquez J. (1996) Uso de la reacción en cadena de la polimerasa para la caracterización de aislamientos nativos de Bacillus thuringiensis. Revista Corpoica 2:1-9. [PDF]
  71. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Hernández Fernández, J., Orozco Cárdenas, M. L. y Narváez Vásquez J. (1996) Caracterización Molecular de Genes cry de Bacillus thuringiensis utilizando PCR Extra-Rápida. Revista Corpoica 1:47. [PDF]
  72. Reichel, H., Mariño-Ramírez, L., Kummert, J., Belalcazar, S. y Narváez, J. (1996) Caracterización del gen de la proteína de la cápside de dos aislamientos del virus del mosaico del pepino (CMV), obtenidos de plátano y banano (Musa spp.) Revista Corpoica 1:1-5. [PDF]

Invited Review Articles

  1. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Kann, M. G., Shoemaker, B. A. and Landsman, D. (2005) Histone structure and nucleosome stability. Expert Review of Proteomics. 2:719-729. [PubMed] [PDF]
  2. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Lewis, K. C., Landsman, D. and Jordan, I. K. (2005) Transposable elements donate lineage-specific regulatory sequences to host genomes. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 110:333-341. [PubMed] [PDF]

Invited Book Chapters

  1. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Tharakaraman, K., Bodenreider, O., Spouge, J. L. and Landsman, D. (2009) Identification of cis-Regulatory Elements in Gene Co-expression Networks Using A-GLAM, in Methods in Molecular Biology: Computational Systems Biology, (McDermott, J.; Samudrala, R.; Bumgarner, R.; Montgomery, K.; Ireton, R. ed.) 541:3-22, Springer, New York, NY. [PubMed] [PDF]
  2. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Tharakaraman, K., Spouge, J. L. and Landsman, D. (2009) Promoter analysis: gene regulatory motif identification with A-GLAM, in Methods in Molecular Biology: Bioinformatics for DNA Sequence Analysis, (Posada, D. ed.) 537:263-276, Springer, New York, NY. [PubMed] [PDF]
  3. Jordan, I. K. and Mariño-Ramírez, L. (2007) Evolutionary genomics of gene expression, in Structural Approaches to Sequence Evolution Molecules, Networks, Populations, (Bastolla, U.; Porto, M.; Roman, H.E.; Vendruscolo, M. ed.), Springer, New York, NY. [Springer]
  4. Mariño-Ramírez, L., Campbell, L. and Hu, J. C. (2003) Screening peptide/protein libraries fused to the lambda repressor DNA-binding Domain in E. coli cells, in Methods in Molecular Biology: E. coli Gene Expression Protocols, (Vaillancourt, P. ed.) 205:235-250, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. [PubMed] [PDF]
  5. Mariño-Ramírez, L. and Hu, J. C. (2002) Using lambda repressor fusions to isolate and characterize self-assembling domains, in Protein-Protein Interactions: A Laboratory Manual, (Golemis, E., and Serebriiskii, I. ed.) 375-394, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. [CSHL Press] [PDF]

Teaching Experience

  • Lecturer 2012 - Present Practical Course "Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in Molecular Biology" - International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). [Program] Trieste, Italy
  • Lecturer 2008 - Present Computational Genomics - School of Biology - Georgia Institute of Technology. [Program] Atlanta, GA
  • Lecturer 2007 - Curso de Bioinformática: Fundamentos para el manejo y uso de datos biológicos. [Program] Montería, Colombia
  • Lecturer 2006 - Curso Internacional: Manejo de Herramientas Básicas en Bioinformática. [Program] Bogotá, Colombia
  • Lecturer 2005 - Curso Internacional de Bioinformática: Manejo de las herramientas básicas. [Program] Bogotá, Colombia

Professional Experience

  • Staff Scientist 2010 – Present Computational Biology Branch National Center for Biotechnology Information. National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD
  • Professor ad-honorem 2010 – 2018 Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia
  • Adjunct Professor 2011 – Present Graduate Program in Bioinformatics. Boston University. Boston, MA
  • Associate Investigator 2008 – 2010 Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Unit. Biotechnology and Bioindustry Center. Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (CORPOICA). Bogotá, Colombia
  • Staff Scientist 2004 – 2008 Computational Biology Branch. National Center for Biotechnology Information. National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD
  • Research Fellow 2002 – 2004 Computational Biology Branch. National Center for Biotechnology Information. National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD
  • Research Assistant 1997 – 2002 Jim Hu's Laboratory. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX
  • Visiting Scientist 1996 Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY
  • Visiting Scientist 1995 Institute of Biosciences and Technology. Texas A&M University. Houston, TX
  • Research Assistant 1994 – 1997 National Plant Biotechnology Program. Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (CORPOICA). Bogotá, Colombia
  • Research Assistant 1992 – 1994 Immunology Institute. San Juan de Dios Hospital. National University of Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia

Honors and Awards

  • 2019 Fulbright Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Mexico
  • 2017 Fulbright Specialist Program. Hungary
  • 2006 DHHS / NIH / NLM Special Achievement Award. PDF
  • 2005 GlaxoSmithKline Bioinformatics Prize. Best paper award 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. ISMB 2005 PDF
  • 1997 Fulbright pre-doctoral Fellowship.
  • 1997 Encyclopædia Britannica Scholarship.
  • 1996 Fellowship in Bioinformatics. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology – ICGEB. Short-Term Fellowship in Biotechnology. UNESCO .
  • 1995 Cochran Fellowship Program in Biotechnology. United States Department of Agriculture – USDA.

Academic Service

Memberships in Professional Societies

  • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - ASBMB.
  • International Society for Computational Biology - ISCB.
  • The Fulbright Association - Fulbright Association.

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