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Maximinio Aldana
is a physicist working at the Institute of Physical Sciences of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is interested in
understanding the relationship between the structural and dynamical
properties of complex systems. In particular, Aldana has worked on
elucidating how the phenotypic characteristics of living systems are
determined by their genetic networks and vice versa. He is also
interested in the emergence of collective order in many-particle
systems.
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Luis David Alcaraz
is a microbial genomics researcher, currently working on comparative
genomics, most of them metagenomics projects as well as
transcriptomics. Particular interest is the connection of gene
functions with microbial diversity, and figure out how to find and
measure the functional adaptation of genes to particular environments
or constrains. Alcaraz is a full-time researcher at the Ecology
Institute (UNAM).
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Eugenio Azpeitia
is a posdoctoant at the Virtual Plants Project Team at the Institute
National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique in Montpellier,
France. He studied biology and a PhD in Biomedical Science, both at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. During the PhD he worked with
plant's root development. His main interest is modeling developmental
processes and gene regulatory networks, but he is also interested in
evolutionary questions and the use of discrete formalisms to solve
biological question. Currently he is working on architectural aspects
of flower development.
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Mariana Benítez studied
Biology at the UNAM, Mexico, and soon became interested in mathematical
and modeling approaches to developmental and evolutionary Biology. She
got a M.Sc. in non-linear dynamics and complex systems at the UACM and
a PhD at the Alvarez-Buylla lab, again at UNAM. She was a postdoctoral
researcher at the Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, C3 - UNAM and
at CEITEC - MU, Czech Republic. She is currently a full-time researcher
at the Ecology Institute (UNAM) where she addresses questions in
eco-evo-devo in plant systems, mainly from a modeling perpective.
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Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla
obtained a PhD in Ecology from the University of California, Berkeley,
supervised by Prof. Montgomery Slatkin (1991). She is a full-time
researcher at the Ecology Institute at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM) since 1992, where she is also the Director of
the Molecular Genetics Laboratory. Prof. Alvarez Buylla is, since 2008, a
founding-member of the Directors Council of the Center for Complexity
Sciences (C3) at UNAM in Mexico City.
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Jordi Bascompte is
a Professor at the Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, a center of
the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Jordi is the Ideas and
Perspectives Editor in Ecology Letters and serves in the Board of
Reviewing Editors of Science. Faculty Member of Faculty of 1000
Biology, is the recipient of the European Young Investigator (EURYI)
Award (2004), the Ecological Society of America's George Mercer Award
(2007), the Rey Jaime I Award in Environmental Sciences (2010), and the
Spanish National Research Award in Environmental Sciences (2011).
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Lorena Caballero
is a Biologist from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM.
With a PhD in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Sciences and the
Institute of Physics. Her research interests include Theoretical
Biology, Evo-Devo, Complexity, Epigenetics and Biosemiotics. She is a
Lecturer in Evolution in the Faculty of Science, UNAM, and a founding
member of the Seminar in Theoretical Biology at the Centro de Ciencias
de la Complejidad C3, UNAM.
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José A. Capitán
obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics by the Carlos III University of
Madrid (2010), supervised by José A. Cuesta. After a postdoctoral
position at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) he joined
in 2012 Susanna Manrubia's group at Centro de Astrobiología (CECIS).
His research interests are focused on the mathematical modeling of
biological systems, mainly those arising in Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, as well as on the study of social systems such as cultural
(linguistic) groups from a cross-disciplinary point of view.
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Eliane Ceccon obtained a Forest
Engineering degree and a MPhil in Silviculture at the Universidade
Federal do Paraná in Brazil. Later she obtained a PhD in Ecology (2001)
from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) supervised by
Prof. Carlos Vazquez Yanes. She is a full-time researcher at the Center
for Regional Multidiciplinary Research (CRIM) at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and an associate researcher at the
Center for Complexity Sciences (C3) at UNAM. Her topics of interest
includes Ecosystems Restoration, Social Environmental issues and
Fuelwood Management.
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Álvaro Chaos Cador
obtained a PhD at the Ecology Institute at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM) and was a postdoctoral researcher at the
Complexity Sciences Centre (C3, UNAM). He is a lecturer of Evolution,
Biogeography and Systematics at the Faculty of Sciences (UNAM). Also,
is a programmer and newspaper columnist. Chaos is interested in
evolutionary theory.
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Germinal Cocho Gil is an Emeritus
Professor of the Complex Systems Department of the Physics Institute at
the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Prof. Cocho
obtained his PhD at Princeton University and is a full-time researcher
at the Physics Institute (UNAM) and founding member of the Directors
Council of the Center for Complexity Sciences (C3) at UNAM. Prof Cocho,
a natural from Madrid, Spain, is one of the most laureated scientists
in Mexico. He also obtained a degree in Medicine so that his scientific
interests range from emergent diseases, VIH dynamics to High Energy
Physiscs and many more.
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Og DeSouza is Associate
Professor at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil, where he
teaches Science Philosophy, Biostatistics, Community Ecology and
Entomology. As a "productivity researcher" fellow of Brazilian National
Council for Research (CNPq), he works on behavioural ecology of
termites with emphasis on sociability as well as on termitophily and
inquilinism. Being an enthusiast of open access scientific publishing,
he is Associate Editor of Sociobiology and member of the Editorial
Board of CopIt ArXives. DeSouza is also Associate Editor of Neotropical
Entomology.
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Ana E. Escalante
is currently working as a researcher at the Instituto de Ecología of the
UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), and is a founding
member of the National Laboratory of Sustainability Sciences (LANCIS).
She got a college degree in Biology, a PhD in microbial ecology and
postdoctoral experience in microbial evolution. Her current work
focuses in the study of complex interactions of microbial consortia and
in the relationship of microbial diversity and functionality in the
face of environmental change. She has ongoing projects that follow this
questions in different systems (i.e. bioreactors, arid soils and
agroecosystems).
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Mayra Patricia García
is a MSc student of Physical Sciences at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico. She holds a Bachelor degree in Physics from
the University of Guadalajara and is interested in non-linear phenomena
and complexity in living systems. Mayra is currently working on the
evolutionary emergence of the structural and dynamical properties of
genetic networks. She is associated with the Institute for Physcial Sciences at UNAM in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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Monica García obtained a degree in Genomic Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Currently she is a PhD student in the laboratory of Professor Elena
Alvarez-Buylla. Gracía is interested in understanding the complex
regulatory networks between genes and hormonal pathways that underlie
the balance between proliferation and differentiation in the root
of A. thaliana. She is
also interested in multi-scale modeling approach to model the links
between the variety of processes participating in root morphogenesis.
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Stuart Kauffman is a MacArthur Fellowship pioneer in the field of complex systems. He has degrees from Oxford University and the University
of California. He has been appointed in many world class institutions
such as the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, the
Santa Fe Institute, the University of Calgary, Tampere University of
Technology in Finland and recently at the Center for Complex Systems at
the University of Vermont. Kauffman is best known for his work on the
complexity and evolution of biological systems that result from
self-organization and non-equilibrium dynamics.
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Juan E. Keymer obtained
a PhD from Princeton University and is currently a researcher at the
Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) in Santiago, Chile. Keymar
has a background in both
physics and biology and is interested in a number of topics on
biological physics, applied mathematics, complexity and ecology.
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Bartolome Luque Serrano
is a full time Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in
Spain. He obtained a PhD in physics from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya,
Spain. He is interested in a range of problems linking complex systems,
non-linear dynamics and statistical physics. Professor Luque is also a
well know science communicator and is in charge of the Spanish version
of the awarded monthly column of Scientific American Mathematical games.
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Susanna Manrubia
obtained her PhD in physics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1996)
under the supervision of Ricard Solé. After a postdoc at the Max Planck
Institute (Berlin, Germany) she joined the Centro de Astrobiología in
2001. In May 2014 she moved with her Group on Evolutionary Systems to
the National Center for Biotechnology (CSIC, Madrid, Spain). She is
interested in theoretical and computational descriptions of biological
phenomena, from the genome to large-scale evolution and the emergence
of cultural patterns and collective social behaviour.
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Pablo Marquet is
a Guggenheim Fellowship awarded full-time Professor at the Facultad de
Ciencias Biológicas of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in
Santiago, Chile. Marquet got a PhD from the University of New Mexico
and is interested in many problems in the theoretical aspects of
population ecology.
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Pedro Miramontes
is a Professor of Mathematics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM). Founding member of the Mathematical Biology Group at the
Faculty of Sciences, UNAM.
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Octavio Miramontes
obtained a PhD from Imperial College London and a MPhil form the Open
University, UK. He worked with Mike P. Haselll and Brian C. Goodwin in
biocomplexity and theoretical biology topics. He is currently a
full-time researcher at the Physics Institute of the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a founding member of the
Directors
Council of the Center for Complexity Sciences (C3) at UNAM. Miramontes
is interested in problems related to the complexity of living matter
and social phenomena. He is the founder and Editor in Chief of CopIt
arXives.
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Alicia Montesinos Navarro did her PhD at the Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain and the University of Pittsburgh (USA), studying adaptive strategies of Arabidospis thaliana
to a climatic gradient. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at
the Institute of Ecology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
(UNAM) where she perform combined fieldwork and mesocosmos experiments
using stable isotopes to test for specific mechanism underlying
plant-plant facilitation related with plant phylogenetic diversity and
plant-mycorrhizal interactions.
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Silvia Pajares Moreno obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Salamanca, Spain. She is now a
postdoctoral research associate in the Bohannan research group at the
Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon (USA).
She did a first postdoctoral research at the Institute of Ecology at
the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is interested in the
interrelationship between microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, global
change and ecosystem management.
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Thiago F. Rangel
is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Department of
Ecology of the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Brazil. He obtained
a PhD from the University of Connecticut (USA). Rangel has very general
interests in Ecological and Evolutionary processes and their consequent
patterns, but his research is mostly focused on broad spatial and
temporal scales. Developing analytical approaches to integrate spatial
and temporal perspectives to the study of biodiversity is currently his
main research goal.
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Christian Torres Sosa obtained
the Bachelor degree in Biological Pharmaceutical Chemistry
from the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico. He later
obtained the M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from the National Autonomous
University of México (UNAM) working on directed evolution of proteins.
He is currently a PhD student of Biochemical Sciences at UNAM working
on the evolution of genetic networks. He is associated with the
Institute for Physcial Sciences at UNAM in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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Santiago Sandoval
obtained the Bachelor degree in Genomic Sciences from
the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He
is currently a PhD student of Biomedical Sciences at UNAM working on
the formulation of mathematical models for adaptive antibiotic
resistance in bacteria. His research interests focus on systems
biology and the mathematical modeling of complex gene regulatory
networks. He is associated with the Institute for Physcial Sciences at UNAM in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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Isabela Galarda Varassin is a
Professor at the Universidade Federal do Paraná em Curitiba, Brazil.
She lectures in Conservation Biology, Environmental issues and
Botanics. Her topics of interest include interaction networks,
pollination and dispersal, community spatial patterns and ecological
restoration of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Varassin obtained a
degree in Ecology from the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
(UFES, 1991), a MPhil and a PhD from the Universidade Estadual de
Campinas (UNICAMP, 1996) in Brazil. She has been a posdoctoral
researcher at the New York Botanical Garden, USA (2007) and in the
University of Maryland, USA (2013).
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Miguel Verdú is
a Spanish evolutionary ecologist interested in the ecological
interactions assembling the structure of communities. He is currently a
researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificacion
(CIDE) del CSIC, Spain.
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Fabricio Villalobos
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universidade Federal de
Goiás, Brazil. He obtained a PhD in Biological Sciences from the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His research focuses on
macroecology and biogeography, along with the related disciplines of
community ecology, theoretical ecology, ecophylogenetics and
conservation biology.
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