What do we do?...
Our work focuses on computational, theoretical, and experimental approaches for understanding biological systems. using systems biology/biophysics approaches. The nickname of the group: The.Si.M.Bio.Sys. (Theoretical and In Silico Modeling of Biological Systems) does not reflect all our research since (many) years ago I also started a experimental line. Our topics of interest cover quite different scales in time and space such as Cell Size Regulation in Bacteria, Developmental Processes, Gene Regulatory Networks, Pattern formation...and even space exploration...
Who are we?...
‣Javier Buceta (P.I.)
‣Ruben Ballester (M.Sc.): rubaroDOTalumniATuvDOTes
‣Oscar Delgado (intern): oscdelforDOTfaustiATgmailDOTcom
‣Victor Gaya (Ph.D., co-supervised by Dr. Ana Conesa): vaDOTgayaATcsicDOTes
‣Iago Grobas (Postdoc): iago.lopezATcsicDOTes
‣Marta Nadal (Ph.D.): martaDOTnadalATcsicDOTes
‣Adrian Nadal (Ph.D.): adrianDOTnadalATcsicDOTes
The team is further complemented by our collaborative research with Rafael Martinez (Research Group leader of the LSyM Lab, IRTIC-UV)
Alumni...
‣Oriol Canela (Ph.D. Advisee): currently PI @ Edinburgh U.
‣Marc Weber (Ph.D. Advisee): currently Postdoc @ CRG (Serrano Lab, Barcelona, Spain)
‣Samira Anbari (Ph.D. Advisee): currently Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Scientist @ Genmab (Philadelphia)
‣Yanyan Chen (Ph.D. Advisee): currently Associate Researcher Scientist @ Columbia U. (NY)
‣Lidia Contreras (Postdoc Advisee): currently Researcher @ Polytech. U Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
‣Marta Dies (Postdoc Advisee): currently Data Scientist @ AIA (Barcelona, Spain)
‣Graziano Fiorillo (Postdoc Advisee): currently Assistant Professor @ Manitoba U. (Winnipeg, Canada)
‣Rosa Baños (Postdoc Advisee): currently Biomed Lab Lecturer @ DOLMEN (Barcelona, Spain)
‣Arantxa Urchueguia (Postdoc Advisee): currently Senior Researcher @ FISABIO (Valencia, Spain)
‣Alex Gómez-Marín (M.Sc. Advisee): currently PI @ Neuroscience Inst. (Alicante, Spain)
‣Ronald Galgoczy (M.Sc. Advisee): currently Consultant @ Prescient Healthcare Group (London, UK)
‣Iago Doel Pérez (M.Sc. Advisee): currently Analyst @ Agency for Health and Nutritional Safety (Vienna, Austria)
‣Maria Martí Prieto (M.Sc. Advisee): currently Research/Project Manager @ ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
‣Bixi Kang (M.Sc. Advisee): currently...I have no clue!
‣Andres Bravo (M.Sc. Advisee): currently Teaching Assistant (Statistics) @ University of Valladolid (Palencia, Spain)
‣Eloy Serrano (M.Sc. Advisee): currently Data Scientist @ BBVA (Madrid, Spain)
‣Alvaro Lopez-Maroto (M.Sc. Advisee): currently Ph.D. student @ UPM (Madrid, Spain)
‣Virgilio de la Viuda (M.Sc. Advisee): currently...I have no clue!
‣Cristina Knetter (M.Sc. Advisee): currently...I have no clue!
‣Cristina Ugedo (M.Sc. Advisee): currently Ph.D. student @ C. González lab (Madrid, Spain)
‣Byron Garcia (M.Sc. Advisee): currently..I have no clue!
Abridged Bio (Javier Buceta)
I graduated in Physics (M.Sc. Theoretical Physics) in Madrid. In addition, I got a M.Sc. degree as Computer Analyst. During my Ph.D. thesis (Physics, Madrid), I researched on pattern formation, molecular motors, interfacial dynamics, and phase transitions using the Statistical Mechanics framework.
Afterwards, I moved to the University of California San Diego (Dept. of Chem. and Biochem. and the Institute for Nonlinear Science) as a postdoc (Prof. Lindenberg’s group) and worked on different topics (pattern formation, disease spreading, tumor growth...). Later, I was awarded by La Jolla Interfaces in Science/Centre for Theoretical Biological Physics programme to conduct research on ‘Left-Right Symmetry Breaking in Embryo Development’ at Salk Institute for Biological Studies/UCSD (J.C. Izpisua-Belmonte/K. Lindenberg).
In 2004 I moved to the Barcelona Science Park as a P.I. (“Ramón y Cajal” research fellow). I got tenured but in 2014 I accepted a position as Associate Professor at Lehigh University (PA, USA, Bioengineering Dpt. and Dpt. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) where I was the founding D.T. & W.E. Schiesser Faculty Fellow. In 2020 I moved back to Spain to the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio) at Valencia as a tenured scientist/P.I, where I am currently deputy director. Since 2022 I am member of the direction board of the Spanish Biophysical Society.
Buceta’s Lab