Lydia M. Contreras
Professor
Computational Life Sciences and Biology
Texas A and M University
United States of America
Biography
Lydia M. Contreras received a B.S.E in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 2003 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2008. She spent 2 years at the Wadsworth Research Center (NYS Dept. of Health) as an NIH Infectious Disease Postdoctoral Fellow.
Research Interest
Fundamental understanding of RNA-protein interactions Development of novel methods for RNA-protein design Mechanisms of molecular assembly and particle formation Mechanisms of biomolecular translocation
Publications
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Tsai CH, Baranowski C, Livny J, McDonough KA, Wade JT, Contreras LM. Identification of novel sRNAs in mycobacterial species. PloS one. 2013 Nov 14;8(11):e79411.
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Vazquez-Anderson J, Contreras LM. Regulatory RNAs: charming gene management styles for synthetic biology applications. RNA biology. 2013 Dec 1;10(12):1778-97.
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Sowa SW, Baldea M, Contreras LM. Optimizing metabolite production using periodic oscillations. PLoS computational biology. 2014 Jun 5;10(6):e1003658.
