Diana García Cortés
Computational Biologist
diana.gco@gmail.com
I am a software developer aiming to design and build software to support research in the life sciences and to develop models to improve our understanding of biological processes at the molecular level.
PhD Biomedical Sciences
UNAM - National Institute of Genomic Medicine
August 2018 - Present
My project analyses gene co-expression profiles in different types of cancer to assess the loss of long distance co-expression phenomenon.
MS Computer Science
UNAM
August 2013 - August 2016
Thesis: Role of PPARG in liver fibrosis: A mathematical and computational model.
I developed a boolean network to model the activation of hepatic stellate cells in liver fibrosis and the role of PPARG in the suppresion of this process.
BS Computer Science and Technology
ITESM Campus Cuernavaca
August 2008 - May 2012
I graduated with honors and was a recipient for the Microsoft Scholarship Program 2010-2011.
Luminal A Breast Cancer Co-expression Network: Structural and Functional Alterations.
García-Cortés D., Hernández-Lemus E.,
Espinal-Enríquez J.
Frontiers in Genetics, 12 (2021).
Eight years of homicide evolution in Monterrey, Mexico: a network approach.
Dorantes-Gilardi R., García-Cortés D., Hernández-Ramos H.,
Espinal-Enríquez J.
Scientific Reports 10, 21564 (2020).
Gene co-expression is distance dependent in breast cancer.
García-Cortés D., De Anda-Jáuregui G., Fresno C.,
Hernández-Lemus E., Espinal-Enríquez J.
Frontiers in Oncology, 10, 1232 (2020).
Multilayer approach reveals organizational principles disrupted in breast
cancer co-expression networks.
Dorantes-Gilardi R., García-Cortés D.,
Hernández-Lemus E., Espinal-Enríquez J.
Applied Network Science, 5, 47 (2020).
Intrachromosomal regulation decay in breast cancer.
De Anda-Jáuregui G., Fresno C., García-Cortés D.,
Espinal-Enríquez J., Hernández-Lemus E.
Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, 4(1), 217-224 (2019).
Some videos where I talk about my research.
May, 2021. In Spanish.
This was an invitation from Jóvenes en Tv from the Secreatariat of Public Education in Mexico to talk about algorithms and Ada Lovelace's work. It was broadcasted on national television to high school students during the COVID-19 lockdown.
February, 2021. In Spanish.
Presentation at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine seminar. I talk about my PhD research project.
October, 2020.
Presentation at the Women in Network Science seminar. I talk about my PhD research project.
April, 2019. In Spanish.
Presentation at Ciencia a Distancia UNAM, a science communication program for high school students.