About me

I am a scientist who loves biology and mathematics. As of late I also got into computers and the Internet.

It all started when I first heard of Darwin and the Theory of Evolution. I got fascinated by the idea that our parents, grand parents, and a bunch of people that we will never meet survive a little bit in each one of us, or at least in our DNA. From that moment I wanted to understand the message etched by our ancestors in every single cell of our body, and quite naturally I ended up studying DNA.

I started this blog because I love writing and sharing what I know. I try to keep it diverse, in the limit of my own interests so my research is only a small fraction of it.

About the blog

A pimiento next to the title of the post means that the article is about statistics or that it involve some mathematics. I try to make the content accessible for everybody, but most likely, you will need to spend some time on the hardest sections if you want to understand them in full. The articles with two pimientos will be of interest for those who want a deep technical understanding.

For the sake of readability, I try to put the technical parts out of the way. A message says when a blog post contains a technical section. If you like challenges, or you want to go deeper, you can click on the Penrose triangles to show them.

Acknowledgements

The design of The Grand Locus is the work of Brit Pavelson. I asked her to do something old-fashioned and never seen for a scientific website. She mixed in her very strong personal style and came up with this. First I found it too aggressive, but eventually I recognized the balance and the simplicity of the graphics so I started developing the app with a design in the line of her prototype.