Dr. Victor Garcia

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

www.zhaw.ch/de/lsfm/institute-zentren/ias/

Membership of networks

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Projects

• A top-down indicator of lean-green alignment in small and medium-sized enterprises / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Die Exploration der Gen-Harmonisierung / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Digital Tools for Codon Optimization / Project leader / Project completed
• Dynamik Knowledge Platform / Project co-leader / Project completed
• The effect of programmed ribosomal frameshifting on codon usage bias / Team member / Project completed
• Exploring the silent fitness landscape / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Garcia, Victor; Horn, Claus; Ott, Thomas,

  2022.

  The sciences of data – moving towards a comprehensive systems perspective.

  Archives of Data Science, Series A.

  8(2).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000150241

• Zrimec, Jan; Buric, Filip; Kokina, Mariia; Garcia, Victor; Zelezniak, Aleksej,

  2021.

  Learning the regulatory code of gene expression.

  Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.

  8(673363).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.673363

• Cadosch, Dominique; Garcia, Victor; Jensen, Jørgen S.; Low, Nicola; Althaus, Christian L.,

  2020.

  Understanding the spread of de novo and transmitted macrolide-resistance in Mycoplasma genitalium.

  PeerJ.

  8.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8913

• Garcia, Victor; Bonhoeffer, Sebastian; Fu, Feng,

  2020.

  Cancer-induced immunosuppression can enable effectiveness of immunotherapy through bistability generation : a mathematical and computational examination.

  Journal of Theoretical Biology.

  492(110185).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110185

• Garcia, Victor; Zoller, Stefan; Anisimova, Maria,

  2018.

  Accounting for programmed ribosomal frameshifting in the computation of codon usage bias indices.

  G3 - Genes, Genomes, Genetics.

  8(10), pp. 3173-3183.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200185

• Smid, Joost H.; Garcia, Victor; Low, Nicola; Mercer, Catherine H.; Althaus, Christian L.,

  2018.

  Age difference between heterosexual partners in Britain : implications for the spread of Chlamydia trachomatis.

  Epidemics.

  24, pp. 60-66.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2018.03.004

• Garcia, Victor; Glassberg, Emily C.; Harpak, Arbel; Feldman, Marcus W.,

  2018.

  Clonal interference can cause wavelet-like oscillations of multilocus linkage disequilibrium.

  Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

  15(140).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0921

• Riesen, Maurane; Garcia, Victor; Low, Nicola; Althaus, Christian L.,

  2017.

  Modeling the consequences of regional heterogeneity in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination uptake on transmission in Switzerland.

  Vaccine.

  35(52), pp. 7312-7321.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.10.103

• Garcia, Victor; Feldman, Marcus W.,

  2017.

  Within-epitope interactions can bias CTL escape estimation in early HIV infection.

  Frontiers in Immunology.

  8(423).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.00423

• Garcia, Victor; Feldman, Marcus W.; Regoes, Roland R.,

  2016.

  Investigating the consequences of interference between multiple CD8+ T cell escape mutations in early HIV infection.

  PLOS Computational Biology.

  12(2), pp. 1-23.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004721

• Garcia, Victor; Richter, Kirsten; Graw, Frederik; Oxenius, Annette; Regoes, Roland R.,

  2015.

  Estimating the in vivo killing efficacy of cytotoxic T lymphocytes across different peptide-MHC complex densities.

  PLOS Computational Biology.

  11(5), pp. 1-13.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004178

• Garcia, Victor; Zoller, Stefan; Anisimova, Maria,

  2018.

  Programmed ribosomal frameshifting and codon usage bias [poster].

  In:

  Hirsch, Sven, ed.,

  Life in Numbers 4.0.

  Life in Numbers 4, Wädenswil, 4 October 2018.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4023

• Garcia, Victor; Zoller, Stefan; Anisimova, Maria,

  2018.

  Accounting for programmed ribosomal frameshifting in the computation of codon usage bias indices [poster].

  In:

  Symposium on Quantitative Network Biology, Kandersteg, 19-20 November 2018.

• Baumann, Isabel; Garcia, Victor; Metz, Florence,

  2018.

  Heat, greed and human need : climate change, capitalism and sustainable wellbeing. Gough, Ian. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing (2017), 264 p., ISBN 978-1-785-36512-6

  .

  Swiss Political Science Review.

  25(1), pp. 95-100.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12336

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

- Victor Garcia, Marcus W. Feldman, Roland Regoes, Interference between multiple CD8+ T cell escape mutation in early HIV infection, PLoS Computational Biology, 12(2): e1004721, doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004721, 2016

- Victor Garcia, Kirsten Richter, Frederik Graw, Annette Oxenius, Roland Regoes, Estimating the in vivo killing efficacy of cytotoxic T lymphocytes across different MHC-peptide complex densities, PLoS Computational Biology, 11(5): e1004178, doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004178, 2015

- Ricardo Pinho*, Victor Garcia*, Marcus W. Feldman (* = equal contribution),
Phenotype accessibility and noise in gene regulatory networks, PLoS One, 10(4): e0119972, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119972, 2015

- Victor Garcia, Roland Regoes, The effect of clonal interference on the CD8+ T cell escape rates in HIV, Frontiers in Immunology, doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00661, 2015

- Mederic Diard, Victor Garcia, Lisa Maier, Mitja N. P. Remus-Emsermann, Roland R. Regoes, Martin Ackermann, and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt. Stabilization of cooperative virulence by the expression of an avirulent phenotype. Nature, 494(7437):353–356, 02 21, 2013.

- Ricardo Pinho, Victor Garcia, Manuel Irimia, Marcus W. Feldman, Stability depends on autoregulation in Boolean gene regulatory networks, PLoS Computational Biology, 10(11): e1003916. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003916, 2014

- Victor Garcia, Mirko Birbaumer, and Frank Schweitzer. Testing an agent-based model of bacterial cell motility: How nutrient concentration affects speed distribution. The European Physical Journal B-Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 82(3):235– 244, 2011.

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