FY2012 Annual Report

Integrative Systems Biology Unit

Assistant Professor Tatiana Márquez-Lago

1. Staff

  • Dr. Tatiana T. Marquez-Lago                      Assistant Professor
  • Dr. Atiyo Ghosh  (start June 2012 - )            Postdoc
  • Dr. Zach Hensel  (start October 2012 - )       Postdoc
  • Dr. Eder Zavala  (start June 2012 - )            Postdoc

2. Publications

2.1 Journals

  • Barrio, M. *, Leier, A. *, Marquez-Lago, T. * (2013) Reaction of chemical reaction networks through delay distributions. J Chem Phys 138,104114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4793982

      *  These authors contributed equally to the work

  • Boettcher, B. *, Marquez-Lago, T. *, Bayer, M., Weiss, E., Barral, Y. (2012) Nuclear envelope morphology constrains diffusion and promotes asymmetric protein segregation in closed mitosis. J Cell Biol Vol. 197, Number 7: 921-937. http://jcb.rupress.org/content/197/7/921.full

*   These authors contributed equally to the work
** Research article featured in JCB research highlights: http://jcb.rupress.org/content/197/7/852.2.full
     Article included in JCB’s most-read list
     Faculty of 1000 rated

  • Marquez-Lago, T., Leier, A., and Burrage, K. (2012) Anomalous diffusion and multifractional Brownian motion: simulating molecular crowding and physical obstacles in Systems Biology. IET Syst Biol 6(4): 134-142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-syb.2011.0049

      ** Research article selected for Special issue on “Modelling Noise in Biochemical Reaction Networks”

    3. Presentations

    3.1 Conference Talks 

    • q-bio, Santa Fe, USA -- August 2012
    • CTAC, Brisbane, Australia -- September 2012

    3.2 Conference Posters

    • q-bio, Santa Fe, USA (1 poster) -- August 2012
    • FEBS, Sevilla, Spain (2 posters) -- September 2012

    3.3 Seminars

    • Dept. Biophysics, University of Osnabrueck, Germany -- May 2012
    • Centre for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Santiago, Chile -- January 2013

    4. Lab rotations 

    • Mart Toots, OIST graduate student -- Fall semester 2012

    5. Other

    • Judge for iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) Competition, Hong Kong -- October 2012
    • Short research visits to groups of collaborators (and new centres in Systems/Synthetic Biology, leading to new joint projects).