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Julio R. Banga
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Computational Biology Lab at MBG-CSIC, Pontevedra, Spain
@julio-r-banga.bsky.social

https://www.bangalab.org/
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👉 New paper out: "Generalized Inverse Optimal Control and Its Application in Biology"

Joint work with Sebastian Sager — www.mathopt.de/people/sager/

Just published in 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗟

👉 Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Optimality principles directly from observations!
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
👉 New paper out: "Generalized Inverse Optimal Control and Its Application in Biology"

Joint work with Sebastian Sager — www.mathopt.de/people/sager/

Just published in 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗟

👉 Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Optimality principles directly from observations!
October 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Free access to this article at authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVrl8jbph...
July 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🚀 New Paper Published!

📄 Title: "Mechanistic dynamic modelling of biological systems: the road ahead"
📄 Journal: Current Opinion in Systems Biology
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

This is review/opinion paper co-authored with Alejandro F. Villaverde afvillaverde.webs.uvigo.gal
Redirecting
doi.org
July 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨

Our latest work discusses the complexities of mathematically modelling microbial communities.

Joint work with Ana Paredes and @balsacanto.bsky.social

🔬 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Microbiome #Ecology #Modeling
Identification of dynamic models of microbial communities
Microbial communities, complex ecological networks crucial for human and planetary health, remain poorly understood in terms of the quantitative principles governing their composition, assembly, and f...
doi.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
🚨 New paper out!

Novel algorithms for uncertainty quantification in systems biology using conformal inference.
Joint work with Alberto Portela and Marcos Matabuena www.marcosmatabuena.com

📄 Read more: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SystemsBiology #UQ
May 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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🚀 @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social l is pleased to share the recorded seminars from April 2! 🎥 Watch the presentation of the tool pyDock by juanfdezrecio.bsky.social (ICVV) & MEIGO by @julio-r-banga.bsky.social @mbgcsic.bsky.social 📺 Available now 👉 pyDock youtu.be/yvH8-1kg94Y 👉MEIGO youtu.be/T68sGGf2N9c
📌Join us for our online seminar on bioinformatic tools!
🎙️Speakers: Juan Fernández Recio (ICVV) presenting pyDock tool (at 11:00-11:40 CET) & Julio Rodríguez Banga (MBG) presenting MEIGO tool (at 11:50 -12:30 CET)
📆 Date: April 2nd
📺 Live stream available acortar.link/N948O3
Don´t miss it!
April 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Fully-funded PhD opportunity in mathematical biology and applied mathematics with Pascal Buenzli and me at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Details at smb.org/Member-Forum... @smbmathbiology.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
March 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century"

Here: thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...

It's an extension of this interview discussion from the AI summit: youtu.be/AxBd3G0lFLs?...
March 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
@openrxiv.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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How gut microbiome research needs to move forward. Going multi-omics, getting to causality, rigorous clinical studies
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@cellpress.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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You first.
February 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sputnik moment?
So, is the battle over? Did open-source DeepSeek AI/LLM win the race? DeepSeek: Chinese AI chatbot sparks market turmoil for rivals such as Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and others
January 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
December 7, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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"A call for research to address the threat of paper mills"

Paper mills are an increasing threat to the integrity of the scientific record. This Perspective discusses 5 key questions that need resourcing & support

#PLOSBiology

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A call for research to address the threat of paper mills
Research paper mills are covert organizations that provide low quality or fabricated manuscripts to paying clients. This Perspective, written by members of the United2Act Research Working Group, propo...
journals.plos.org
November 23, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Wordcloud of our research interests
November 15, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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If your profile says invalid handle, here is how you fix it
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One part of our upgraded infrastructure may affect your profile.

If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” please reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update.

(Basically, update to the same handle.)
November 13, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Over at her blog, @pawlean.com talks about why she is using BlueSky and I find that so many of her reasons resonate with me www.pawlean.com/posts/why-im...
Why I’m using Bluesky | a blog by Pawlean
Thoughts shared into pixels by Pauline Narvas since 2008
www.pawlean.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.
a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf
ALT: a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Hello everyone! 🌟
I am a researcher in computational systems biology.
I look forward to sharing thoughts, ideas, and keeping in touch with all of you in this fresh space.
Let’s keep the conversation going!
November 14, 2024 at 12:09 PM