Javier Buceta Fernández

   Parc Cientific de Barcelona

 

Background

 

I graduated in Physics (M.Sc. Fundamental Physics). In addition, I have a M.Sc. degree as Computer Analyst. During my Ph.D. thesis (Physics: ‘Fluctuations in Spatially Extended Systems’), I researched on pattern formation, molecular motors, interfacial dynamics, and phase transitions. Within that period, I performed research stays in different institutions such as the Institute for Scientific Interchange (Italy) and the University of Limburgs (Belgium).

 

Afterwards, I moved to the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Dept. of Chem. and Biochem. and the Institute for Nonlinear Science, where I joined Prof. Lindenberg’s group and worked on pattern formation, population dynamics, disease spreading, granular matter, stochastic processes, and tumor growth. Later on, I was granted by La Jolla Interfaces in Science (LJIS)/Centre for Theoretical Biological Physics programme (Burroughs Wellcome Fund) to conduct research on ‘Pattern Formation and Left-Right Symmetry Breaking in Embryo Development’ at Salk Institute for Biological Studies/UCSD.

 

Back in Spain, in November 2004, I moved to my current position at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) where I joined the Special Center for Research in Theoretical Chemistry (CeRQT) as a “Ramón y Cajal” research fellow. Since then, I have an independent position as P.I. of The SiMBioSys Group. I am currently at the so-called CoSMo Lab (Computer Simulation and Modeling), a unit that has been recently created at PCB.

Lately I’m focused in trying to set up a Molecular Biology wet lab....

 

Selected Publications

 

J. Buceta, C. Escudero, F.J. de la Rubia, and K. Lindenberg. Outbreaks of Hantavirus Induced by Seasonality, Phys. Rev. E, 69, 021906 (2004).

 

J. Buceta and J. Galeano. Comments on the Universal Dynamics of Tumor Growth, Biophys J., 88, 3734 (2005).

 

R. Reigada, J. Buceta, and K. Lindenberg. Nonequilibrium patterns and shape fluctuations in reactive membranes, Phys. Rev. E, 71, 051906 (2005); ibid 72 039901 (E).

 

J. Buceta, M. Ibanes, D. Rasskin-Gutman, Y. Okada, N. Hirokawa, and J.C. Izpisua-Belmonte. Nodal Cilia Dynamics and the Specification of the Left/Right Axis in Early Vertebrate Embryo Development, Biophys. J., 89, 2199 (2005).

 

R. Reigada, J. Buceta, and K. Lindenberg. Generation of dynamic structures in nonequilibrium reactive bilayers, Phys. Rev. E, 72, 051921 (2005).

 

K. Wood, J. Buceta, and K. Lindenberg. Comprehensive Study of Pattern Formation in Relaxational Systems, Phys. Rev. E, 73, 022101 (2006).

 

J. Buceta, H. Herranz, O. Canela-Xandri, R. Reigada, F. Sagués, and M. Milán. Robustness and Stability of the Gene Regulatory Network Involved in DV Boundary Formation in the Drosophila Wing, PLoS ONE 7, e602 (2007).

 

O. Canela-Xandri, F. Sagués, R. Reigada, and J. Buceta. A Spatial toggle switch drives boundary formation in development, Biophys. J. BioFAST: September 12, 2008. doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.133306.

 

R. Reigada, J. Buceta, J. Gómez, F. Sagués, and K. Lindenberg. Phase Separation in Three Components Lipid Membranes: From Monte Carlo Simulations to Ginzburg-Ladau Equations, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 025102 (2008).

 

javier.buceta@pcb.ub.es
Phone: +34 934037170
Fax: +34 934037109

Personal website

 

Courses

General Biophysics

Advanced topics in Biophysics