Otto X. Cordero
Postdoctoral Associate
Research - Education - Publications:
Research Interests
- Microbial population genomics
- Social evolution and natural population structure.
- Networks of ecological interactions.
- Microbial genome evolution.
Education
- PhD in Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Utrecht. 2009.
- MSc in Computer Science, University of Utrecht. 2005
- BSc: Computer Engineering, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador. 2003
Publications
- CS Smillie, MB Smith, J Friedman, OX Cordero, LA David and EJ Alm. (2011) Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome. Nature
- Y Boucher, OX Cordero, A Takemura, DE. Hunt, K Schliep, E Bapteste, P Lopez, CL Tarrd, and MF Polz. (2011) Local Mobile Gene Pools Rapidly Cross Species Boundaries To Create Endemicity within Global Vibrio cholerae Populations. Mbio.
- L Wang, S Chen, KL Vergin, SJ Giovannoni, SW Chan, MS DeMott, K Taghizadeh, OX Cordero, M Cutler, S Timberlake, EJ Alm, MF Polz, J Pinhassi, Z Deng, PC Dedon. (2011) DNA phosphorothioation is widespread and quantized in bacterial genomes. PNAS.
- OX Cordero and P Hogeweg. (2009) The impact of long-distance horizontal gene transfer on prokaryotic genome size. PNAS.
- OX Cordero and P Hogeweg (2009) The consequences of base pair composition biases for regulatory network organization in prokaryotes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26(10):2171–2173
- OX Cordero and P Hogeweg (2009) Regulome size in prokaryotes: universality and lineage specific variations. Trends in Genetics. Vol. 25 Pages 285-286
- OX Cordero, B Snel and P Hogeweg (2008) Coevolution of gene families in prokaryotes. Genome Research. 18(3):462-8.
- OX Cordero and P Hogeweg (2007) Large changes in regulome size herald the main prokaryotic lineages. Cordero and Hogeweg. Trends in Genetics. Vol. 23 pp. 488–493
- OX Cordero and P Hogeweg (2006) Feed forward loop circuits as a side effect of genome mutational dynamics. Cordero and Hogeweg. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(10):1931-1936..
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