RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Biotechnology
- Computational biology
- Development of coarse-grained models
- Development and application of theoretical and molecular computer simulation techniques
- Thermodynamic and kinetic modeling of rare events (e.g., biological and polymer science)
- Renewable Energy (Computer simulation and experimental data link)
- Biomedical Engineering
Project Info:
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
1. Borrero, E.E., Briano, J.G., Castro, M.E., and Hernandez-Rivera, S.P. (2004) Numerical simulation of the chemical-signature-compounds transport from a mine field. Proceedings of the SPIE, 5415: 533-544.
2. Borrero, E.E., and Colucci J.A. (2005) Biodiesel from an alkaline transesterification reaction of soybean oil using ultrasonic mixing. JAOCS, 82:525-530.
3. Borrero, E.E., and Escobedo, F. (2006) Folding kinetics of a lattice protein via a forward flux sampling approach .J. Chem. Phys. 125:164904-14.
4. Borrero, E.E., and Escobedo, F. (2007) Reaction coordinates and transition pathways of rare events via forward flux sampling. J. Chem. Phys. 127:164101-17.
5. Contreras Martinez, L., Borrero, E.E., Escobedo, F. and DeLisa, M.P. (2007) In silico protein fragmentation reveals the importance of critical nuclei in domain reassembly. BioPhys J., 94:1575-1588.
6. Borrero, E.E., and Escobedo, F. (2008) Optimizing the sampling and staging for simulations of rare events via forward flux sampling schemes. J. Chem. Phys. 129:024115 -16.
7. Borrero, E.E., and Escobedo, F. (2009) Simulating the kinetics and thermodynamics of transitions via forward flux/umbrella sampling. J. Phys. Chem. B 113:64634.
8. Velez-Vega C., Borrero, E.E., and Escobedo, F. (2009) Kinetics and reaction coordinate for the isomerization of alanine dipeptide by a forward flux sampling protocol. J. Chem. Phys 130:225101.
9. Escobedo, F. Borrero, E.E., and Araque J.C.(2009) Recent Advances of Transition Path Sampling Methods and Applications to Biological Systems. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21:333101.
10. Borrero, E.E., Contreras Martinez, L., Escobedo, F. and DeLisa, M.P. (2010) Kinetics and reaction coordinates of the reassembly of protein fragments via forward flux sampling. BioPhys J., 98:1911-1920
11. Velez-Vega C., Borrero, E.E. and Escobedo, F. (2010) Kinetics and mechanism of the unfolding N-L transition of Trp-cage in explicit solvent, via optimized Forward Flux Sampling simulation. J. Chem. Phys. 133:105103.
12. Borrero, E.E. and Dellago, C. (2010) Overcoming barriers in trajectory space: mechanism and kinetics of rare events via Wang-Landau enhanced transition path sampling. J. Chem. Phys. 1133:134112.