A. Cardillo, Ph.D Student
Research subjects: Evolutionary Game Theory.
email: alessio.cardillo(at)ct(dot)infn(dot)it

Emanuele Cozzo is a PhD student at the University of Zaragoza, Department of Condensed Matter Physics. He is under the tutoring of Dr. Yamir Moreno at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI). Previously, he studied at the University La Sapienza, Roma, getting his degree in Physics with the thesis entitled “Nonlinear diffusive models with applications in Biology”, under the tutoring of Dr. Armando Bazzani.
He is interested in Systems Biology, Complex Networks and Non Linear Dynamics.
email: emanuelecozzo(at)yahoo(dot)it

Selected Publications:

1. Dynamics of Biomolecular Networks, Emanuele Cozzo, Joaquín Sanz and Yamir Moreno. Chapter contribution to: Encyclopedia of Molecular cell Biology and Molecular Medicine. Ed Wiley (in press).

P. Piedrahita, Ph.D Student
Research subjects: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics.
email: ppiedrahita(at)gmail(dot)com

Joaquín Sanz, email: jsanz(at)bifi(dot)es
I was born in Ejea de los Caballeros, a town near Zaragoza in 1983. I finished my degree in Physics at the University of Zaragoza in 2009. During my undergraduate studies, I spent one year in Naples (Italy) at the University Federico II as an Erasmus interchange student and another year in Bilbao (Spain) at the Basque Country University (UPV) supported by the spanish interchange program Seneca. I finished my Master degree in Physics in 2010 -always at the University of Zaragoza- and at the same time I started my PhD. under the advise of Prof. Yamir Moreno and Prof. Mario Floría at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI).

The two main subjects of my PhD thesis are spreading of persistent diseases on complex topologies -epidemiological models and tools- and systems biology of infectious processes (mainly inference and dynamic modelling of genetic regulatory systems in bacteria). More precisely, we are studying models for the spreading of Tuberculosis at the population level as well as the epidemiology of this disease from a systemic, microbiological point of view. To deal with these kinds of questions we are using theoretical and modeling tools within the frameworks of Statistical Physics, Complex Networks Theory, Non linear Sciences and Mathematical Biology.

Selected Publications:

1. Spreading of persistent infections in heterogeneous populations, Joaquín Sanz, Mario Floría and Yamir Moreno. Physical Review E 81, 056108 (2010).
2. Spreading of persistent infections in homogeneous populations, Joaquín Sanz, Mario Floría and Yamir Moreno. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (in press).
3. Dynamics of Biomolecular Networks, Emanuele Cozzo, Joaquín Sanz and Yamir Moreno. Chapter contribution to: Encyclopedia of Molecular cell Biology and Molecular Medicine. Ed Wiley (in press).
4. The transcriptional regulatory network of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Joaquín Sanz, Jorge Navarro, Ainhoa Arbués, Carlos Martín, Pedro Marijuán and Yamir Moreno, PLoS One, 6(7): e22178 (2011).