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Dr. Andrés Fernando González Barrios - CEMarin

19 12, 2019
Researchers

Dr. Andrés Fernando González Barrios

Education

  • 2002-2007 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, The University of Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • 2002-2007 M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, The University of Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • 2000–2002 M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia.
  • 1993–2000 B.Sc. in Chemical Engineer, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia.

University Unit

  • Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Building ML Office
  • Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering 
  • Phone (57 1) 3394949

Research Group

Research group in Process and product design

https://ingenieria.uniandes.edu.co/Paginas/DetalleGrupoInvestigacion.aspx?gid=7&area=IQUI

Technical/Quantitative skills: 

Matlab, teaching, biotechnology, management of research and academic entities.

Contact Information

Professional Experience

  • 2018-date Head of Chemical Engineering Department at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2007-date Associate professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1998–2000 Research assistant at Corporación para las Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia.

Research Interests

Topics: Biological engineering, genomic scale modeling of microorganisms, metabolic engineering, molecular biology, rational design of proteins, statistical thermodynamics, stochastic kinetics, biological processes, stability analysis. 
 

Selected Publications

Serrano, L., González, A., Montoya, D. (2017) Clostridium butyricum maximizes growth while minimizing enzyme usage and ATP production: metabolic flux distribution of a strain cultured in glycerolx. BMC Systems Biology () 11 (n/a), pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12918-017-0434-0

Botero, D., Valdes, I., Rodríguez, M., Henao, D., Danies, G., González, A., Restrepo, S. (2018) A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of Phytophthora infestans with the integration of transcriptional data reveals the key metabolic patterns involved in the interaction of its host. Frontiers in Genetics (ISSN 1664-8021) 9 (N/A), pp. 244-1-244-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00244

Mora, D., Fernández, M., Serrano, L., Paez, D., Vischi, F., Caldana, C., González, A. (2018) Development of a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii metabolic network dynamic model to describe distinct phenotypes occurring at different CO2 levels. PeerJ (ISSN 2167-8359) 6 ( e: 5528), pp. –26. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5528 

Tafur, A., Camelo, L., Gómez, J., González, A. (2018) Effects of metabolic engineering on downstream processing operational cost and energy consumption: the case of Escherichia coli’s glycerol conversion to succinic acid. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology (ISSN 0268-2575) 93 (N/ A), pp. 2011-2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.5432 

Number of publications: 

Cvlac: 97

TAGS: Bioengineering, Systems Biology, Protein Engineering, Biosurfactants, Metabolic Network Modeling.