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Alexander was born in Santiago-Chile where he studied Molecular Biotechnology Engineering and received his Ph.D. in Sciences. During this period he worked on co-expression networks and gene function prediction in plants. Since 2015 he has been working at Umeå Plant Sciences Centre (UPSC) where he has been studying plant responses under different abiotic stressors such as cold, drought and high temperature, analyzing the involved regulatory mechanisms using network modeling and tools of comparative genomics. Results from these studies could be useful to improve plants adaptability to climate change and have an impact on crops and industry.
In IceLab Alex will continue working in these topics as part of an interdisciplinary project combining network, high throughput data analysis and molecular biology.
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March 27th Lunch Pitch: Anders Garpebring, Sophia Harlid and Jian-Feng Mao
March 27th Lunch Pitch: Anders Garpebring, Sophia Harlid and Jian-Feng Mao March 27, 2024 AI for image processing, understanding breast cancer risk and unravelling the complexity of plant genomes were the [...]
March 13th Lunch Pitch: Aftab Nadeem, Barbora Parizkova and Jakob Hultgren
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New faculty for Stress Response Modeling excellence center
New faculty for Stress Response Modeling excellence center Two faculty positions are now open for application within the excellence center “Stress Response Modeling at IceLab”. IceLab seeks candidates who combine quantitative [...]
February 28th Lunch Pitch: Cemal Erdem and Elin Chorell
February 28th Lunch Pitch: Cemal Erdem and Elin Chorell February 28, 2024 Cemal Erdem introduced his use of machine learning and mechanistic modeling in cancer and disease research, while Elin Chorell [...]
Microbial eco-evolutionary research collaboration with Korea
Microbial eco-evolutionary research collaboration with Korea A STINT-funded research collaboration exchange between IceLab and Korean researchers from Inha University kicks off with a visit to Incheon, Korea February 19th-28th. The research [...]
February 14 Lunch Pitch: factors affecting lifespan
February 14 Lunch Pitch: factors affecting lifespan February 14, 2024 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Verena Kohler, Assistant Professor at Department of Molecular Biology. [...]