Curriculum Vitae
Personal
- Citizenship: Chilean Citizen
- US Visa status: F1 student visa
- Languages: Spanish: native; English: read, written and spoken (TOEFL: 640 PBT, TWE: 5, SPEAK: 50)
Academic and Research Interests
Quantitative and Physical Biology, Superfluid Hydrodynamics, Bioinformatics, Microbial Ecology and Metagenomics
Education
- Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
Thesis: Computational approaches to stochastic systems in physics and ecology
Advisor: Nigel Goldenfeld - Magíster en Ciencias mención Física (equivalent to M.S. Physics), Universidad de Chile, 2004
Thesis: Quantitative Model for the Growth of Biomaterials: A Study of Avian Eggshell
Advisor: Fernando Lund - Licenciatura en Ciencias mención Física (equivalent to B.S. Physics), Universidad de Chile, 2002
Skills
- Numerical programming in C++, Matlab, Mathematica
- Basic knowledge of C and Java programming.
- Scripting in Python, with emphasis on numerical and bioinformatics modules
- Knowledge of 16S rRNA bioinformatics pipelines for high-throughput data analysis
- Proficiency in administering Linux systems
Employment
Postdoctoral
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2012- current
- Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, April 2012- current (joint with U. of Illinois)
Teaching – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Thermal and Statistical Physics (University), Fall II 2011, Teaching Assistant (Discussion)
- Quantum Physics (University), Fall I 2011, Teaching Assistant (Discussion)
- Electricity & Magnetism and Modern Physics (College), Spring 2010, Teaching Assistant (Discussion)
- Mechanics and Heat (College), Fall 2008, Teaching Assistant (Lab)
- Electricity & Magnetism and Modern Physics (College), Spring 2007, Teaching Assistant (Lab)
- Electricity & Magnetism and Modern Physics (College), Fall 2006, Teaching Assistant (Lab)
- Atomic and Quantum Physics (Phys. Major), Spring 2005, Teaching Assistant (Grading)
- Atomic and Quantum Physics (Phys. Major), Fall 2004, Teaching Assistant (Grading)
Teaching – Universidad de Chile
- Contemporary Physics (Engr. Major), Fall 2003, Teaching Assistant (Discussion)
- Computational Methods in Physics (Phys. Major), Spring 2002, Teaching Assistant
- Electromagnetism (Engr. Major), Fall 2002, Teaching Assistant (Discussion)
- Introductory Modern Physics (Phys. Major), Spring 2001, Teaching Assistant (Discussion)
- Contemporary Physics (Engr. Major), Fall 2001, Teaching Assistant (Discussion)
Other
- Physics Computer Services – Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Summer 2005 – Spring 2006, Graduate Assistant (Tech Support)
Awards and Honors
- L.S. Edelheit Family Biological Physics Fellowship, 2009
- Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Physics 102 – College Physics: Electricity & Magnetism and Modern Physics, Spring 2006
- Teacher Ranked as Outstanding, Physics 102 – College Physics: Electricity & Magnetism and Modern Physics, Spring 2007
- Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Physics 101 – College Physics: Mechanics and Heat, Fall 2008
- Teacher Ranked as Outstanding, Physics 213/214 – University Physics: Thermal and Statistichal Physics, Quantum Physics, Fall 2011
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Publications
- P. Jeraldo, J.L. Arias, F. Lund, S. Maeckelberghe and D. Walgraef, Towards a quantitative model of eggshell growth: a two-dimensional study, in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Biomineralization, edited by J.L. Arias and M.S. Fernández (Editorial Universitaria, Santiago, Chile, 2007), pp. 155-164
- M. Sipos, P. Jeraldo, N. Chia, A. Qu, A.S. Dhillon, M.E. Konkel, K.E. Nelson, B. White, and N. Goldenfeld, Robust Computational Analysis of rRNA Hypervariable Tag Datasets, PLoS ONE 5, e15220 (2010)
- P. Jeraldo, N. Chia, and N. Goldenfeld, On the suitability of short reads of 16S rRNA for phylogeny-based analyses in environmental surveys, Environ. Microbiol. 13, 3000-3009 (2011)
- J. Brulc, C. Yeoman, M. Wilson, M. Berg-Miller, P. Jeraldo, S. Jindou, N. Goldenfeld, H. Flint, R. Lamed, I. Borovok, M. Vodovnik, K. E. Nelson, E. Bayer, and B. White, Cellulosomics, a Gene-Centric Approach to Investigating the Intraspecific Diversity and Adaptation of Ruminococcus flavefaciens within the Rumen, PLoS ONE 6, e25329 (2011)
- L. Angheluta, P. Jeraldo, and N. Goldenfeld, Anisotropic velocity statistics of topological defects under shear flow, Phys. Rev. E 85, 011153 (2012) (also on arXiv:1201.5758)
- P. Jeraldo, M. Sipos, N. Chia, J.M. Brulc, A.S. Dhillon, M.E. Konkel, C.L. Larson, K.E. Nelson, A. Qu, L.B. Schook, F. Yang, B.A. White and N. Goldenfeld, Quantification of the relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring gastrointestinal microbiomes, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 9692-9698 (2012)
- C.J. Yeoman, N. Chia, P. Jeraldo, M. Sipos, N. Goldenfeld and B.A. White, The microbiome of the chicken gastrointestinal tract, Anim. Health Res. Rev. 13, 89-99 (2012)
Presentations
Talks
- Evolutionary dynamics of a rare biosphere in the chicken caecum, Biocomplexity Theme Seminar, Institute for Genomic Biology, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2009
- Quantitative Model for the Growth of Biomaterials, 2nd SBPMat Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2003
Posters
- TORNADO v2: a pipeline for alignments and comparison for microbiome read libraries from next-generation sequencing platforms, Individualizing Medicine Conference 2012, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, October 2012
- On the suitability of short reads of 16S rRNA for phylogeny-based analyses in environmental surveys, Keystone Symposia: Microbial Communities as Drivers of Ecosystem Complexity, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, March 2011
- Collective Dynamics of HGT, Institute for Genomic Biology Fellows Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2007
- Quantitative Model for the Growth of Biomaterials, 10th International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures, Viña del Mar, Chile, December 2003