Julio Collado-Vides Explained

Birth Name:	Pedro Julio Collado-Vides
Julio Collado-Vides
Birth Date:	14 February 1957
Alma Mater:	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Thesis Year:	1989
Awards:	Guggenheim Fellowship (1992)

Julio Collado-Vides is a Guatemalan scientist and Professor of Computational Genomics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research focuses on genomics and bioinformatics.^[1]

Education

Collado-Vides studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, gaining a BSc in biomedical science (1983), an MSc in physical chemistry (1985) and a PhD in biomathematics (1989). Following his PhD, he carried out postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Work and research

Collado-Vides' research focuses on the regulation of gene expression in bacteria, in particular, creating a model of the regulatory network of E. coli K-12. The RegulonDB database (released in 2010) makes this data available.^[2] He has also been involved in the construction of the EcoCyc E. coli database^{[3] [4]} and the completion of the sequenced E. coli genome.^[5]

He was the founding President of the Mexican Society of Genomics.^[6]

Awards and honours

Collado-Vides is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences^[7] and was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2015.^[8]

Books

• Integrative Approaches to Molecular Biology, 1996, MIT Press (edited with Boris Magasanik and Temple F. Smith)
• Gene Regulation and Metabolism: Post-Genomic Computational Approaches, 2002, MIT Press (edited with Ralf Hofestädt)

External links

• Julio Collado-Vides homepage at UNAM CCG

Notes and References

1. Web site: Personal information Center for Genomic Sciences. www.ccg.unam.mx. 12 September 2016.
2. Gama-Castro S, Salgado H, Peralta-Gil M, Santos-Zavaleta A, Muñiz-Rascado L, Solano-Lira H, Jimenez-Jacinto V, Weiss V, García-Sotelo JS, López-Fuentes A, Porrón-Sotelo L, Alquicira-Hernández S, Medina-Rivera A, Martínez-Flores I, Alquicira-Hernández K, Martínez-Adame R, Bonavides-Martínez C, Miranda-Ríos J, Huerta AM, Mendoza-Vargas A, Collado-Torres L, Taboada B, Vega-Alvarado L, Olvera M, Olvera L, Grande R, Morett E, Collado-Vides J . Jan 2011. RegulonDB version 7.0: transcriptional regulation of Escherichia coli K-12 integrated within genetic sensory response units (Gensor Units). Nucleic Acids Res.. 39. Database issue. D98-105. England. 21051347. 10.1093/nar/gkq1110. 3013702 .
3. Karp. P. D.. The EcoCyc Database. Nucleic Acids Research. 1 January 2002. 30. 1. 56–58. 10.1093/nar/30.1.56. 11752253. 99147.
4. Keseler. I. M.. EcoCyc: a comprehensive database resource for Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research. 17 December 2004. 33. Database issue. D334–D337. 10.1093/nar/gki108. 540062. 15608210.
5. Blattner. F. R.. The Complete Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli K-12. Science. 5 September 1997. 277. 5331. 1453–1462. 10.1126/science.277.5331.1453. 9278503. free.
6. Web site: Julio Collado‐Vides. drclas.harvard.edu. 12 September 2016.
7. Web site: miembros_alfabetico2014.pdf. 12 September 2016.
8. Web site: Feb 20, 2015: Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2015. www.iscb.org. 12 September 2016.