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Biochemistry 115
BIOMAPS 118 (Programs in Quantitative Biology)
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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2003-2005 Programs, Faculty, and Courses BIOMAPS 118 (Programs in Quantitative Biology) Members of the Graduate Faculty  

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Michael Andrec, Assistant Research Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Computational chemistry of protein structure and dynamics

Edward Arnold, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins

David E. Axelrod, Professor of Genetics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Tennessee
Cellular and molecular oncology; tumor-cell proliferation

Jean S. Baum, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Structural studies of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques

Helen Berman, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
X-ray crystallographic and molecular modeling studies of biological molecules

Ira Black, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Harvard Environmental regulation of neuronal gene expression and information flow in the nervous system; brain growth and trophic factors; stem cell biology

Kenneth J. Breslauer, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale Biopolymer structures and drug-nucleic acid interactions

Bernard D. Coleman, Professor of Thermomechanics, SE; Ph.D., Yale Continuum mechanics, analysis

Monica Driscoll, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
C. elegans developmental genetics; molecular mechanisms of inherited neurodegeneration

Stanley M. Dunn, Professor of Bioengineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland; Ph.D., Free University of Amsterdam
Quantitative radiography; bone densitometry; image analysis microscopy

Richard Ebright, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB/WIM; Ph.D., Harvard
Protein-DNA interaction; protein engineering; regulation of gene expression

Martin Farach-Colton, Associate Professor of Computer Science, FAS-NB; M.D., Johns Hopkins; Ph.D., Maryland
Computational biology; design and analysis of algorithms

Marc R. Gartenberg, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Yale
Nuclear organization of DNA; chromosome structure; yeast plasmid segregation

Israel Gelfand, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Moscow State
Mathematics; artificial intelligence; neuroanatomy; cell biology

Jody Hey, Professor of Genetics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Evolution, speciation, human origins, recombination, natural selection, codon bias

Tomasz Imielinski, Professor of Information and Computer Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences
Mobile wireless computing; data mining

Lev Ioffe, Professor of Physics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Condensed-matter theory

Kenneth D. Irvine, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB/WIM; Ph.D., Stanford
Cell signaling and growth control during Drosophila development

Rebecka Jornsten, Assistant Professor of Statistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Interface of information theory and statistics; analysis of gene expression data

Casimir Kulikowski, Professor of Computer Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Hawaii
Artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; imaging; biomedical applications

Joel Lebowitz, George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center for Mathematical Sciences Research/Professor of Physics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Syracuse
Mathematical physics; statistical mechanics

Katherine Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Biological and organic reactivity, recognition, and catalysis; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry

Ronald Levy, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Biophysical chemistry, structure and dynamics of macromolecules; chemical physics

Gerald S. Manning, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Theory of polyelectrolytes; ionic effects on biopolymers

Aram Mekjian, Professor of Physics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Maryland
Theoretical nuclear physics

Joachim Messing, Professor of Genetics, Waksman Institute, FAS-NB/WIM; Ph.D., Munich
Molecular biology of higher plants; M13 cloning, sequencing, gene synthesis

Dimitri Metaxas, Professor of Computer Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Toronto
Physics-based modeling; computer graphics and animation; computational vision; medical imaging

Prabhas Moghe, Associate 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 Montelione, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Protein NMR spectroscopy, molecular recognition, rational drug design, structural bioinformatics

Wilma Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Theoretical studies of nucleic acid structure and properties

Richard W. Padgett, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB/WIM; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Molecular genetics of development in Drosophila and C. elegans

Vladimir Pavlovic, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Applied machine learning and probabilistic inference, bioinformatics, computer vision, and human-computer interaction

Danny Reinberg, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Einstein
Regulation of gene expression

Fred Roberts, Professor of Mathematics, Director, DIMACS, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Discrete mathematical models; graph theory; decision making; measure- ment theory

Charles Roth, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware
Molecular bioengineering; gene-based technologies; cell systems engineering

Andrei Ruckenstein, Professor of Physics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Complex biological systems; transcription regulation; gene repair; biological regulatory networks; computational developmental biology

Anirvan Sengupta, Associate Professor of Physics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Tata Institute, Bombay
Information processing systems in cell biology; signal transduction networks and transcriptional circuits; statistical physics; signal processing and network analysis

Konstantin Severinov, Associate Professor of Genetics, FAS-NB/WIM; Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences
Structure and function of RNA polymerases from eubacteria and yeasts

Lawrence Shepp, Professor of Statistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Pure and applied probability tomography

Boris Shraiman, Professor of Physics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Complex systems; transcription regulation; regulation of enzymatic signal transduction pathways; fluctuations; spatial localization; kinetic models

William H. Sofer, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB/WIM; Ph.D., Miami
Genetic algorithms for predicting secondary structure of proteins

Eduardo Sontag, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Florida
System and control theory

Ruth Steward, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Basel
Nuclear migration, RNA localization and patterning in Drosophila

Ann M. Stock, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Structure and function of signal transduction proteins

David Talaga, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Single molecule studies of inorganic and biological polymers; vibrational spectroscopy

Jay Tischfield, Professor of Genetics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Gene regulation, human genetics diseases

Andrew Vershon, Associate Professor of  Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB/WIM; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Regulation of gene expression in yeast

John Westbrook, Associate Research Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rutgers
Databases for protein and nucleic acid structures

Martin Yarmush, Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rockefeller; M.D. Yale
Tissue engineering, metabolic engineering, genomics and proteomics, stem cell bioengineering

Norman Zabusky, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Fluid dynamics; computational and analytical; nonlinear dynamical systems


 
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