Yarden Katz

Yarden obtained his PhD from MIT in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He is an independent Departmental Fellow who has started joint projects with our group.

Héctor Francisco Medina Abarca

Héctor has completed his undergraduate degree in integrative genomic sciences at UNAM, Mexico, with an internship in our Lab. He did his PhD in the Harvard Systems Biology PhD program and is now a postdoctoral fellow in our Lab. Héctor is using Kappa to model combinatorial scaffolding in signaling systems and made significant contributions to the maturation of the Kappa framework.

Walter Fontana (PI)

Trained as a chemist, mentored in theoretical molecular biology by Peter Schuster (Vienna), educated in evolutionary biology by Leo Buss (Yale), self-taught in computer science and charmed by the social sciences through John Padgett (Chicago), Walter has straddled many divides and taken risks in pursuing a professional trajectory shaped by the desire for a broadly engaging cross-disciplinary environment more than by career safety. He moved from the Santa Fe Institute to Harvard Medical School in September 2004. In seeing the opportunities that quantitative thinking and technology bring to experimental biology, the Fontana Lab pursued a theoretical and an experimental agenda that were deliberately distinct from each other. Having achieved a significant experimental milestone, the lab returned to all-computational and theoretical research in 2017. (Walter's website)