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Simon Pedro Castillo Barahona

Postdoctoral Training Fellow

Institute of Cancer Research

Londres, Reino Unido

Líneas de Investigación


My research has been focused on the understanding of cancer using ecological tools, paradigms, and theories. Currently, I am working in the interface of spatial ecology, omics and machine learning.

Educación

  •  Ecology, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2020
  •  Ecology, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2017
  •  Biologo con Mencion en Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2014
  •  Ecology, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2013

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    The institute of Cancer Research

    Londres, Reino Unido

    2020 - At present

  •   Asistente de investigacion Part Time

    Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

    Chile

    2013 - 2014

  •   Asistente tecnico Part Time

    Universidad de Magallanes

    Puerto Williams, Chile

    2014 - 2015

  •   Asistente de Investigacion Part Time

    Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2020 - 2020


 

Article (8)

Cancer progression: A journey through the past (with the same stops)?

Castillo, Simon P.

Article ISI
BIOESSAYS  (2021)

Do microenvironmental changes disrupt multicellular organisation with ageing, enacting and favouring the cancer cell phenotype?

Castillo, Simon P.; Keymer, Juan E.; Marquet, Pablo A.

Article ISI
BIOESSAYS  (2021)

Integrating Quantitative Approaches in Cancer Research and Oncology

Barker, Anna D.; Gatenby, Robert; Finley, Stacey D.; Leggett, Susan E.; Nelson, Celeste M.; Curtis, Christina; Mathur, Deepti; Xavier, Joao B.; Califano, Andrea; Castillo, Simon P.; Yuan, Yinyin; Davies, Paul

Article ISI
TRENDS IN CANCER  (2021)

Native-predator-invasive-prey trophic interactions in Tierra del Fuego: the beginning of biological resistance?

Castillo, Simón P.; Crego, Ramiro D.; Jiménez, Jaime E.; Rozzi, Ricardo

Article ISI SCOPUS
ECOLOGY  (2017)

The network structure of cancer ecosystems

Simon P. Castillo, Rolando Rebolledo; Matias Arim, Michael E. Hochberg

Article
BioRxiv  (2017)

Intentional introduction of exotic fauna and future invaders: Are we tripping over the same rock once again?

Castillo, S.

Article ISI SCIELO SCOPUS
BOSQUE  (2016)

Coping with Daily Thermal Variability: Behavioural Performance of an Ectotherm Model in a Warming World

Rojas, José M.; Castillo, Simón B.; Folguera, Guillermo; Abades, Sebastián; Bozinovic, Francisco; Russell, Bayden D.

Article ISI SCOPUS
PLOS ONE  (2014)

Huddling up in a dry environment: the physiological benefits of aggregation in an intertidal gastropod

Rojas JM; Castillo, SB; Escobar, JB; Shinen, JL; Bozinovic F.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Marine Biology  (2013)

Proyecto (5)

Addressing global warming scenarios in freshwater ecosystems using aquatic invertebrates as model organisms

FONDECYT (11130451)

Proyecto
2013-2014
Personal técnico y/o de apoyo

Behavioral and physiological ecology in a warming world=> testing the role of thermal variability on scales pertinent to organisms

FONDECYT (1130015)

Proyecto
2013-2013
Personal técnico y/o de apoyo

Predatory impacts and variables determining the spatiotemporal occupancy of the invasive American mink (Neovison vison) on a pristine island ecosystem in southern Chile

CREOi, Rufford, sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation program at University of North Texas and IEB

Proyecto
2013-2017
Personal técnico y/o de apoyo

Center of Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity

FONDAP (1501)

Proyecto
2011-2011
Tesista

Local and regional factors affecting the functional richness of top-predators assemblages in temperate forest in southern South America

FONDECYT (11110027)

Proyecto
2011-2013
Personal técnico y/o de apoyo

7
Simon Castillo

Postdoctoral Training Fellow

Computational Biology and Integrative Genomics

Institute of Cancer Research

Londres, Reino Unido

2
Francisco Bozinovic

Full professor

Ecology

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Juan Keymer

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ecologia

P. Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Ricardo Rozzi

Professor

Philosophy & Religion

University of North Texas

Denton, Estados Unidos

1
Sebastián Abades

Profesor Asociado

Universidad Mayor

Santiago, Chile

1
Pablo Marquet

Full Professor

Ecology

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile