Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics 118
Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Darrin M. York, Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, Busch Campus (848-445-5199)
Associate Director of Graduate Studies: Dr. Gail
Ferstandig Arnold, Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, Busch Campus
(848-445-8377)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Ioannis Androulakis, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D, Purdue Bioinformatics; systems engineering
Edward Arnold, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS-CABM/CINJ; Ph.D., Cornell
Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins
David E. Axelrod, Professor of Genetics, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Tennessee Cellular and molecular oncology; tumor-cell proliferation
Jean S. Baum, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Structural studies of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques
Helen M. Berman, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Pittsburgh X-ray crystallographic and molecular modeling studies of biological molecules
Gyan Bhanot, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS/CINJ/IAS; Ph.D., Cornell Computational biology of cancer; evolutionary genetics; advanced pattern recognition techniques
Kenneth J. Breslauer, Linus C. Pauling Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale Biopolymer structures and drug-nucleic acid interactions
Stephen K. Burley, Director, Center for Integrative
Proteomics Research, Director RCSB Protein Data Bank, Director, BioMaPS,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/CINJ; D.Phil.,
Oxford; M.D., Harvard Structural biology and proteomics; structure
and fragment based drug discovery; clinical medicine;oncology
David A. Case, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Computational aspects of biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance; electrostatic interactions in proteins and nucleic acids; electronic structure
Kevin Chen,
Assistant Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
MicroRNAs and RNA-binding proteins; evolution of
gene regulation
Bernard D. Coleman, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Materials Science, SE; Ph.D., Yale Continuum mechanics; analysis
Charles Dismukes, Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM;
Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison) Biological and chemical methods for renewable
solar-based fuel production, photosynthesis, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis,
and tools for investigating these systems
Monica
A. Driscoll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/CINJ;
Ph.D., Harvard C. elegans developmental genetics; molecular
mechanisms of inherited neurodegeneration
Richard Ebright, Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., Harvard Protein-DNA interaction; protein engineering; regulation of gene
expression
Martin Farach-Colton, Professor of Computer
Science, SAS; M.D., Johns Hopkins; Ph.D., Maryland Computational
biology; design and analysis of algorithms
Marc R.
Gartenberg, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale Nuclear organization of DNA; chromosome structure; yeast plasmid
segregation
Sarah
Hitchcock-Degregori, Professor of Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine, RWJMS; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Regulation of muscle
contraction; actin dynamics and cellular movement by the actin binding protein,
tropomyosinMasayori Inouye, Distinguished
Professor of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., Osaka Molecular biology of cellular adaptation to
stresses
Lev B. Ioffe, Professor of Physics, SAS; Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Russia) Condensed-matter theory
Kenneth
D. Irvine, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., Stanford Cell signaling and growth control during
Drosophila development
Charalampo (Babis) Kalodimos, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Ioannina (Greece) and Institute Curie (France) Structural and mechanistic biology; protein dynamics and allostery Andrew Kern, Assistant Professor of Genetics, SAS;
Ph.D., California (Davis) Population and comparative genomics; computational biology; machine learningSagar Khare, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Design principles of biological functional
evolution
Casimir
Kulikowski, Board of Governors Professor of Computer Science, SAS/WIM;
Ph.D., Hawaii Artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; imaging;
biomedical applications
Joel Lebowitz, George William Hill
Professor of Mathematics, Director of the Center for Mathematical
Sciences Research, SAS; Ph.D., Syracuse
Mathematical physics; statistical mechanics
Jeehiun
Katherine Lee, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
SAS; Ph.D., Harvard Biological and organic reactivity, recognition, and
catalysis; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry
Arnold J. Levine, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Pediatrics, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Systems and computational biology; cancer; infectious diseasess
Peter
Lobel, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D.,
Columbia Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases; functional
genomics; lysosomes; protein targetingJoseph Marcotrigiano, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/CABM;
Ph.D.,Rockefeller Basic mechanism of HIV, hepatitis C virus, and
alphavirus replication; innate, cellular response to viral
infectionAram Mekjian, Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Maryland Statistical mechanics to investigate high-energy
collisions and fragmentation phenomena
Joachim
Messing, University Professor of Molecular Biology, Director, Waksman
Institute, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Munich (Germany) Molecular biology of higher plants;
M13 cloning, sequencing, and gene synthesis
Dimitri Metaxas,
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, SAS; Ph.D.,
Toronto Physics-based modeling; computer graphics and animation;
computational vision; medical imaging
Konstantin M. Mischaikow, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin Mathematical biology; topological methods for the analysis of dynamical systems
Prabhas
V. Moghe, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,
Minnesota Bioengineering and microarchitecture of polymeric tissue
analogs; cell-biomaterial interactions; tissue engineering of liver,
skin, and blood vessels; fluid flow and "cellular stress engineering";
quantitative 3-D reconstructive confocal microscopy
Gaetano
T. Montelione, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/CABM/CINJ; Ph.D., Cornell Protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; molecular
recognition; rational drug design; structural bioinformatics
Alexandre V. Morozov, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Washington Computational structural biology and bioinformatics; macromolecular simulations; transcriptional regulation
Vikas Nanda, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Protein design; protein evolution; protein simulations; biomimetics; biomaterials
Wilma
K. Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Stanford Theoretical studies of nucleic acid structure
and properties
Richard W. Padgett, Professor of Molecular
Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel
Hill) Molecular genetics of development in Drosophila and C. elegans
Smita
Patel, Professor of Biochemsitry, RWJMS; Ph.D., Tufts Structure-function and dynamics of enzyme-catalyzed processes involved
in genome replication and transcription
Vladimir Pavlovic,
Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
(Urbana-Champaign) Applied machine learning and probabilistic
inference; bioinformatics; computer vision; human-computer
interaction
Vincent Pirrotta, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard Chromatin
structure and dynamics; polycomb silencing mechanisms; epigenetic
mechanisms; developmental gene regulation; genomic programming;
Drosophila genetics
Arnold
B. Rabson, Director, Child Health Institute of New Jersey, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology,
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D., Brown HIV; HTLV-1; NF-kB; cancer; lymphomas;
transcription; gene expression; oncogenesis
Fred Roberts,
Director of CCICADA, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Discrete mathematical models; graph theory; decision making;
measurement theory
Charles M. Roth, Professor of
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware Molecular
bioengineering; gene-based technologies; cell systems engineering
Alexander Schliep, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Cologne (Germany) Bioinformatics and machine learning; gene regulation
Anirvan
M. Sengupta, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Tata Institute (India) Information processing systems in cell biology; signal transduction
networks and transcriptional circuits; statistical physics; signal
processing and network analysis
Konstantin V. Severinov, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences Structure and function of RNA polymerases from eubacteria and yeasts
Lawrence Shepp, Professor of Statistics, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton Pure and applied probability tomography
Troy Shinbrot, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland Computational bioengineering; biomedical imaging
Eduardo Sontag, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Florida System and control theory
Ruth
Steward, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM/CINJ;
Ph.D., Basel (Switzerland) Nuclear migration; RNA localization and patterning in
Drosophila
Ann M. Stock, Interim Director, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS/CABM/CINJ; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Structure and
function of signal transduction proteins
Jay A. Tischfield, CEO and Scientific Director, RUCDR Infinite Biologics, Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry, Executive Director, Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale Gene regulation; human genetic diseases
Andrew
K. Vershon, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Regulation
of gene expression in yeast
Martin Yarmush, Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rockefeller; M.D., Yale Tissue engineering; metabolic engineering; genomics and proteomics;
stem cell bioengineering
Darrin M. York, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Molecular simulation and quantum chemistry methods in the study of RNA catalysis
Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty
John Westbrook, Associate Research Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers Databases for protein and nucleic acid structures
Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty
Gabriela Alexe, Senior Computational Biologist, Harvard Medical School, Associate Scientist,The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Ph.D., Rutgers
