Biography:
Francisco graduated from the University of California, Davis in 2017 with a B.Sc. in Biological Systems Engineering. In 2019 he obtained his M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Before starting his PhD, he worked as a computational biologist for one year at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
Research Interests:
There are trillions of microbial cells living on our bodies. Francisco's research focuses the complex metabolism that occurs within networks of microbial communities, such as those found in the human gut microbiome, and how this affect host health. In order to quantitatively study these microbiomes, Francisco applies and develops a metagenomics-driven genome scale metabolic modeling approach, combining a range of bioinformatic, statistical, and machine learning methods. Side interests include applying these approaches to other microbiomes such as oceans, soils, lichen, cheese fermentation cultures, and fossilised faeces, just to name a few.
