Pedro Julio Collado Vides

Julio Collado-Vides is a Guatemalan scientist and Professor of Computational Genomics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research focuses on genomics and bioinformatics.

Education Collado-Vides studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, gaining a BSc in biomedical science (1983), an MSc in physical chemistry (1985) and a PhD in biomathematics (1989). Following his PhD, he carried out postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has also been involved in the construction of the EcoCyc E. coli database and the completion of the sequenced E. coli genome.

He was the founding President of the Mexican Society of Genomics.

Awards and honours Collado-Vides is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2015.

Books Integrative Approaches to Molecular Biology, 1996, MIT Press (edited with Boris Magasanik and Temple F. Smith) Gene Regulation and Metabolism: Post-Genomic Computational Approaches, 2002, MIT Press (edited with Ralf Hofestädt)