We have repurposed RNA-binding proteins from mice and flies that contain RNA recognition motif domains to engineer gene regulatory circuits in E. coli based on translation control.
Short bio
Born in Valencia in 1983, Guillermo Rodrigo obtained the B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) in 2006, having conducted the last year of studies at Ecole Polytechnique de France. He obtained the M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 2008 and the Ph.D. in Biotechnology (with Extraordinary Award) in 2011 at the UPV. He participated in the European High-Performance Computing and MIT-France programs. He followed his postdoctoral career in Paris at the CNRS, first with the EMBO long-term fellowship and then as the AXA research fund investigator. Since 2014, Guillermo is Tenured Scientist at the CSIC in Spain and leads a group working on Systems and Synthetic Biology.
Laboratory of the speaker
BioSystems Design Lab, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (CSIC-UV), Valencia, Spain
Invited by
Manish Kushwaha
