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Nuno D. Mendes

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Nuno D. Mendes

Postdoctoral Fellow


Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

I finished my five year degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering at IST in July 2004. For six years I had been attending classes while also working as a software developer at a telecoms company.

I left the industry and decided to embrace the academic world in September 2004 when I became a Master's student in Information Systems and Computer Engineering at IST. I completed my Master's in November 2005 with a thesis on Inference of Complex Motifs using Biclustering Techniques, supervised by Ana Teresa Freitas (IST) and Arlindo Oliveira (IST).

In 2005 I was accepted in the first edition of the PhD Program in Computational Biology of the IGC.

In 2006 I became a PhD student in Computational Biology and a researcher at KDBIO Group of INESC-ID and BAOBAB Group at INRIA Rhône-Alpes. I completed my PhD in June 2011 under the supervision of Ana Teresa Freitas (IST) and Marie-France Sagot (INRIA Rhône-Alpes) with a thesis on Efficient algorithms for the identification of miRNA motifs in DNA sequences.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Network Modelling Group of the Gulbenkian Institute of Science.

Research Interests

  • Exact algorithms
  • Complexity
  • Computational Biology
    • Regulation of gene expression
    • Genome structure and genome evolution
    • Non-coding RNAs
    • Structural biology
    • Motif discovery
    • Regulatory networks
    • Discrete modelling of regulatory network dynamics

Selected Publications

Journal Papers