José Miguel Ortega
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Immunology
University of Minas
Brazil
Biography
Miguel holds a degree in Biosciences (1981) and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1987) by the University of Sao Paulo. He is currently an associate professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais, leading the Biodata Lab. He has experience in Biochemistry, with emphasis on bioinformatics, acting on the following topics: chromatin structure, yeast two-hybrid system (liquid screening system), biochemistry of transcription factors and bioinformatics. Participated twice in the board of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and was the organizer of the X-meeting 2005. Participates of the PhD program on Bioinformatics at UFMG and Minas Gerais Genome Network and is currently dedicated to the formation of a National Center for Intensive Bioinformatics (NCIB) in collaboration with other major regional centers.
Research Interest
Cell Proliferation Control, Structure of Chromatin, Biochemistry of Transcription Factors, Bioinformatics
Publications
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de Alvarenga Mudado M, Ortega JM. (2006) A picture of gene sampling/expression in model organisms using ESTs and KOG proteins. Genet. Mol. Res; 5 : 242-253.
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Prosdocimi F, Mudado MA, Ortega JM. (2007) A set of amino acids found to occur more frequently in human and fly than in plant and yeast proteomes consists of non-essential amino acids. Computers in Biology and Medicine; 37 : 159-165.
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Barbosa-Silva A, Satagopam VP, Schneider R, Ortega JM. (2008) Clustering of cognate proteins among distinct proteomes derived from multiple links to a single seed sequence. BMC bioinformatics; 9 : 141.
