Omar Eduardo Cornejo Ordaz
Academic Appointments
- Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics
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Professional Education
| Doctor of Philosophy: | Emory University (2009) |
| MSc: | IVIC, Ecology (2004) |
| Bachelor: | Universidad Simon Bolivar, Biology (1999) |
Stanford Advisors
| Carlos Bustamante: | Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor |
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Current Research Interests
I am mainly interested in understanding the relative roles of recombination, mutation and selection in shaping genetic variation in and determining the genetic structure of populations of microorganism, especially those that are etiological agents of infectious diseases. I see this subject as having the virtues of being central to our understanding of the population genetics of microbes and at the same time having practical value for understanding and ideally controlling existing and and emerging infectious diseases. I believe that a combination of experimental studies in the laboratory, mathematical modeling, and retrospective analyses of DNA sequence data will enable us to understand the relative importance of these evolutionary processes in generating and maintaining genetic variation in microbial populations and shaping their genetic structure. With the advent of next generation sequencing technologies the evaluation of the relative contribution of the forces maintaining and generating variation genome wide is an incredible opportunity to understand the genetic bases of pathogenicity and the bases of adaptive evolution in pathogens.
Publications
- Evolutionary and population genomics of the cavity causing bacteria Streptococcus mutans. Mol Biol Evol. 2013; (4): 881-93
- ARG-based genome-wide analysis of cacao cultivars. BMC Bioinformatics. 2012: S17
- Phased whole-genome genetic risk in a family quartet using a major allele reference sequence. PLoS Genet. 2011; (9): e1002280
- Timing the origin of human malarias: the lemur puzzle. BMC Evol Biol. 2011: 299
- On the diversity of malaria parasites in African apes and the origin of Plasmodium falciparum from Bonobos. PLoS Pathog. 2010; (2): e1000765
- Polymorphic competence peptides do not restrict recombination in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol Biol Evol. 2010; (3): 694-702
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