Pablo Meyer           

Pablo is a Team leader in the Translational Systems Biology and Nanobiotechnology group and Research Staff member in the IBM Computational Biology Center. He joined IBM research in 2010 and received his Undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Mexico UNAM (2000) and a Masters degree from the University of Paris VII/XI his Ph.D. in Genetics from the Rockefeller University (2005). He was awarded a Helen Hay Whitney fellowship as a posdoctoral fellow in Columbia university.

General interests

I am overall interested in how events at the molecular level and gene circuits determine mesoscopic or higher order phenomena from circadian bevahiors in flies, influences on apoptosis and prediction of olfactory responses from molecular structures (see full text of recent paper in Science and Nature comms).

I am a director of DREAM challenges and you can check my TEDx talk on DREAM challenges, "Breaking the Piñata of Science".

Systems Biology of Single Cell Variability  

 We want to generate single cell datasets for the analysis and development of computational tools in order to predict metabolic, transcriptional and higer oder states in cells and organisms.  Part of my research application rests on the analysis of cell metabolic regulation in B.subtilis, in particular cell wall synthesis, and the formation of enzyme condensates in the cytoplasm of cells growing more rapidly.

We also study how binary decisions such as -live or die- by cells and the main parameters that influence Cell-to Cell Variability, CCV. We recently discovered that mitochondrial abundance is a main determinant of CCV in apoptosis using our DEPICTIVE algorithm.

I recently organized the Single cell transcriptomics DREAM challenge and the Allen institute cell lineage DREAM reconstruction challenge.