Enrique M. Muro

Enrique M. Muro is a tenured Principal Investigator and Professor at the Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iomE) within the Faculty of Biology at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. His interdisciplinary work bridges computational biology, bioinformatics, and evolutionary theory with applications in genomics and systems biology.

• Fields of Interest: Computational Biology, Genome and Proteome Evolution, Genomics, Non-coding Genes, Pseudogenes, Transcriptional Regulation, Mobile DNA, Systems Biology, Three-dimensional Chromatin Structure, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Models for Central Visual System Development.
• Key Research: Quantitative analysis of eukaryogenesis as a phase transition, evolutionary implications of protein coding gene length distributions, and functional studies of pseudogenes and retrotransposons.
• Teaching: Offers courses in Python programming for biologists, biostatistics, and bioinformatics at undergraduate and graduate levels since 2014. Authored an open-access online book Fundamentals of programming in biomedicine with Python.
• Supervision: Mentors Master’s students Anna Christina du Plessis (DAAD scholarship, 2024) and Emilia Körner (2025), and supervised Sweta Talyan (PhD, 2018).
• Outreach: Authored the book Bioinformatics: Entre la carne y la máquina, translated into Italian and Romanian, and actively disseminates computational biology education.