{"id":438,"date":"2017-09-26T23:54:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/?p=438"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:27:50","slug":"jose-alejo-amaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/2017\/09\/26\/jose-alejo-amaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Alejo Amaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; padding: 0 10pt 0 0; float: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 30%; padding: 0 10pt 0 10pt; float: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-439 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/informal_pic2-e1609449030413-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"prototyping biology\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/informal_pic2-e1609449030413-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/informal_pic2-e1609449030413-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/informal_pic2-e1609449030413-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/informal_pic2-e1609449030413-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/informal_pic2-e1609449030413.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 50%; padding: 0 10pt 0 0; float: left;\">\n<p>Contact: jalejoam@umn.edu<br \/>\nJose L. Alejo received his B.Sc. in physics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, numerically studying a mathematical model of viral budding. In 2009, he obtained his M.Sc. in physics, during which he studied small vesicle fusion and uptake into human astrocyte cells, under Professors Chad Leidy and John M. Gonzalez.<br \/>\nHe continued to pursue doctoral studies at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, where he initially studied the effects of small molecules on lipid bilayers under Professor Olaf Andersen and then wrote his dissertation on the study of ribosome machinery biophysics through single-molecule imaging techniques under Professor Scott Blanchard.<br \/>\nCurrently, he is developing platforms for the compartmentalized, controlled evolution of the translation machinery, with views towards both origin of life and biotechnology research.<br \/>\nJose works on projects jointly with Engelhart lab.<\/p>\n<p>Jose is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhmi.org\/programs\/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program#Fellows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hanna H. Gray Fellow<\/a> of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; padding: 0 10pt 0 0; float: left;\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: jalejoam@umn.edu Jose L. Alejo received his B.Sc. in physics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, numerically studying a mathematical model of viral budding. In 2009, he obtained his M.Sc. in physics, during which he studied small vesicle fusion and uptake into human astrocyte cells, under Professors Chad Leidy and John M. Gonzalez. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/2017\/09\/26\/jose-alejo-amaya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jose Alejo Amaya&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}