Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington
Languages Spoken: Spanish
Biography
Josua Aponte-Serrano is a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Systems Biology Section. Originally from Puerto Rico, he received his Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems Engineering from Indiana University-Bloomington where he worked on developing multicellular and multiscale models of the immune response to viral infections. Specifically, he modeled the autocrine and paracrine regulation of viral replication by type-1 interferons. He joined the Computational Systems Biology Section with an interest in extending his multiscale modeling research to develop more mechanistic models of intracellular and intercellular signaling pathways. His current research is centered around cellular decision-making, specifically in the context of chemosensing and chemotaxis. He’s also interested in developing modular approaches to multiscale and multicellular modeling to promote model testing, sharing and reusability.