Advances in Life Sciences

Advances in Life Sciences is an international journal publishing articles that emphasize the molecular, cellular, and functional basis of therapy. All articles are rigorously reviewed. The journal favors publication of full-length papers where modern scientific technologies are used to explain molecular, cellular and physiological mechanisms.

Josep Sardanyés

Editorial Board Member of Advances in Life Sciences

Post-doctoral Fellow, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco(UCSF), USA

Research Areas

Theoretical Biology, Complex Systems, Mathematical Modeling, Nonlinear Dynamics, Virology, Epidemiology, Coevolution, Ecology, Chaos, Dynamics of Cooperation, Origin of Life, Prebiotic Evolution, Population Dynamics, Computational Biology

Education

2009Ph.DBiology graduated Excellent Cum Laude at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona
2007-2008MasteBiomedicine held at UPF in Barcelona
2002BachelorBiology at UB

Experience

2011-presentPostdoc in Prof. Leor Weinbeger's Lab (Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology), University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco CA, USA
2009–2011Postdoc in Prof. Santiago F. Elena's Lab (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Plant Biology)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
2007-2008Employed as a superior technician of scientific research assistance at the Complex Systems Lab (group headed by Ricard V. Solé) located at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) , Department of Health and Life Sciences (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UP
2006-2007Employed as a scientific research assistant at the Complex Systems Lab (UPF) funded by the European P.A.C.E.
2004-2006Scholar at the Complex Systems Lab (UPF) with a grant from the European P.A.C.E.

Publications: Journals

[1]  Duarte J., Januário C., Rodrigues, C., and Sardanyés J.*, Topological complexity and predictability in the dynamics of a tumour growth model with Shilnikov's chaos. Submitted to Nonlinear Analysis Series B (2011). *corresponding author
[2]  Duarte J., Januário C., Martins N., and Sardanyés J.*, On chaos, transient chaos and ghosts in single population models with Allee effects. Under review in Nonlinear Analysis Series B (2011).
[3]  Sardanyés J.*, Duarte J., Januário C., and Martins N., Controlling delayed transitions with applications to prevent single species extinctions. Under review in J. Control Theory and Appl. (2011).
[4]  Sardanyés J., * and Elena S.F., Quasispecies spatial models for RNA viruses with different replication modes and infection strategies. PLoS ONE (2011). In Press.
[5]  Sardanyés J.*, Martínez F., Daròs J. A., and Elena, S. F., Dynamics of alternative modes of RNA replication for positive-sense RNA viruses. J. Roy. Soc. Interface (2011). In Press.
[6]  Lafforgue G., Martínez F., Sardanyés J., de la Iglesia F., Shi-Shun L., Qi-Wen N., Solé R. V., Chua N-H., Daròs J. A., and Elena S.F., Tempo and mode of plant RNA virus escape from RNAi-mediated resistance. J . Virol. (2011). In Press. equal contribution
[7]  Sardanyés J., Duarte J., Januário C. and Martins N., Topological entropy of catalytic sets: Hypercycles revisited. Commun. Nonlin. Sci. Num. Sim. (2011). In Press.
[8]  Duarte J., Januário C., Martins N., and Sardanyés J.*, Scaling law in saddle-node bifurcations for one dimensional maps: a complex variable approach. Nonlinear Dyn. (2011). In Press.
[9]  Martínez F., Sardanyés J., Elena, S. F., and Daròs J. A., Dynamics of a plant RNA virus accumulation: stamping machine versus geometric replication. Genetics 188: 637-646 (2011).
[10]  Sardanyés J.*, Low dimensional homeochaos in coevolving host-parasitoid dimorphic populations: Extinction thresholds under local noise. Commun. Nonlin. Sci. Num. Sim. 16: 3896-3903 (2011).
[11]  Lafforgue G., Sardanyés J., and Elena S.F., Differences in accumulation and virulence determine the outcome of outcompetition during Tobacco etch virus coinfection. PLoS ONE 6: e17917 (2011).
[12]  Duarte J., Januário C., Martins N., and Sardanyés J.*, Quantifying chaos for ecological stoichiometry, Chaos 20: 033105 (2010). This article was selected for publication in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 20 (3): Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2010). This paper was in the Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles of September 2010 in the Chaos Journal website.
[13]  Elena S. F., Solé R. V., and Sardanyés J., Simple genomes, complex interactions: Epistasis in RNA virus. Chaos 20: 026106 (2010). This paper was highlighted in Chaos: Getting a step ahead of pathogens. This paper was in the Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles of September 2010 in the Chaos Journal website.
[14]  Sardanyés J., * and Elena S. F., Error threshold in RNA quasispecies models with complementation. J. Theor. Biol. 265: 278-286 (2010).
[15]  Sardanyés J., * and Fontich E., On the metapopulation dynamics of autocatalysis: extinction transients related to ghosts. Int. J. Bifurc. and Chaos 20 (4): 1-8 (2010).
[16]  Duarte J., Januário C., Martins N., and Sardanyés J.*, Chaos and crises in a model for cooperative hunting: a symbolic dynamics approach. Chaos 19: 043102 (2009).
[17]  Sardanyés J.*, Solé R. V., and Elena S. F., Replication mode and landscape topology differentially affect RNA virus mutational load and robustness. J. Virol. 83 (23): 12579-12589 (2009). This paper was featured in the Human Frontier Science Program website.
[18]  Fontich E., and Sardanyés J., Dynamical role of the degree of intraspecific cooperation: a simple model for prebiotic replicators and ecosystems. Physica A 388 (9): 1867-1878 (2009).
[19]  Sardanyés J.*, Ghosts in high dimensional non linear dynamical systems: The example of the Hypercycle. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 39 (1): 92-100 (2009).
[20]  Fontich E., and Sardanyés J., General scaling law in the saddle-node bifurcation: a complex phase space study. J. Phys. A: Math. and Theor. 41 (15102): 1-9 (2008).
[21]  Sardanyés J., Elena S. F. and Solé R. V., Simple quasispecies models for the survival-of-the-flattest effect: the role of space. J. Theor. Biol. 250( 3): 560-568 (2008).
[22]  Sardanyés J.*, Error threshold ghosts in a simple hypercycle with error prone self-replication. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 35: 313-319 (2008).
[23]  Sardanyés J., and Solé R. V., Matching allele dynamics and coevolution in a minimal predator-prey replicator model. Phys. Lett. A 372 (4): 341-350 (2008).
[24]  Sardanyés J., * and Solé R. V., Delayed transitions in nonlinear replicator networks: About ghosts and hypercycles. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 31 (2): 305-315 (2007).
[25]  Sardanyés J., * and Solé R. V., Space-time dynamics in simple asymmetric hypercycles under weak parasitic coupling. Physica D 231 (2): 116-129 (2007).
[26]  Sardanyés J., * and Solé R. V., Red Queen strange attractors in host-parasite replicator gene-for-gene coevolution. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 32 (5): 1666-1678 (2007).
[27]  Sardanyés J., * and Solé R. V., Chaotic stability in spatially-resolved host-parsite replicator: The Red Queen on a lattice. Int. J. Bifurc. and Chaos 17 (2): 1-18 (2007).
[28]  Sardanyés J., * and Solé R. V., The role of cooperation and parasites in nonlinear replicator delayed extinctions. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 31(5): 1279-1296 (2007).
[29]  Sardanyés J., and Solé R. V., Bifurcations and phase transitions in spatially-extended two-member hypercycles. J. Theor. Biol. 243 (4): 468-482 (2006).
[30]  Sardanyés J., * and Solé R. V., Ghosts in the origins of life? Int. J. Bifurc. and Chaos 16 (9):2761-2765 (2006).
[31]  Solé R. V., Sardanyés J., Diez J., and Mas A., Information catastrophe in RNA viruses through replication thresholds. J. Theor. Biol. 240 (3): 353-359 (2006).

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  Duarte J., Januário C., Martins N. and Sardanyés J., Symbolic dynamics and control in chaotic systems. Chapt. 1, p. 1-41 in Advanced Topics in Chaos Theory and Dynamics, (ed. E. Zeraoulia). Science Publishers (2011).
[2]  Sardanyés J., The hypercycle: from molecular to ecosystems dynamics. Chapt. 6, in Landscape Ecology Research Trends, (Eds. Arthur Dupont and Hugo Jacobs). Nova Publishers (2008).
[3]  Solé R. V., Macía J., Fellermann H., Munteanu A., Sardanyés J. and Valverde S., Models of Protocell Replication. In Protocells: bridging living and non-living matter, (Eds. S. Rasmussen et al.). MIT Press (2008).