Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy
Codirector of Graduate Program: Professor Ronald M. Levy, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-3947)
Codirector of Graduate Program:
Professor Wilma K. Olson, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-3993)
Acting Assistant Director of Graduate Program:
Dr. Daniel Weinstock, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-3278)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Ioannis Androulakis, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D, Purdue Bioinformatics; systems engineering
Edward
Arnold, 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, 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 Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Computational biology of cancer;
evolutionary genetics; advanced pattern recognition techniques
Kenneth J. Breslauer, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical
Biology, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale
Biopolymer structures and drug-nucleic
acid interactions
David
A.
Case, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical
Biology, SAS;
Ph.D., Harvard
Computational
aspects of biomolecular NMR; electrostatic interactions
in proteins and nucleic acids; electronic structure aspects of
metalloenzymes
Kevin Chen, Assistant Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
MicroRNAs and RNA binding proteins; evolution of gene regulation
Bernard D. Coleman, Professor of Mechanical and Materials Science, SE; Ph.D., Yale Continuum mechanics, analysis
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, 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 Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale
Nuclear organization of DNA; chromosome structure; yeast plasmid
segregation
Jody
Hey, Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Evolution;
speciation; human origins; recombination; natural selection; codon bias
Tomasz Imielinski, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Mobile wireless computing; data mining
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
Rebecka Jornsten, Associate
Professor of Statistics, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Interface of
information theory and statistics; analysis of gene expression data
Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Ioannina and Institute Curie (France)
Structural and mechanistic biology; protein dynamics and allostery
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 and Director of the Center for Mathematical
Sciences Research; Professor of Physics, SAS; Ph.D., Syracuse
Mathematical physics; statistical mechanics
Jeehiun
Katherine Lee, Associate 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-UMDNJ/CINJ; Ph.D. Pennsylvania
Systems and computational biology; cancer; infectious diseases
Ronald
M. Levy, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical
Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Biophysical chemistry, structure, and
dynamics of macromolecules; chemical physics
Joachim
Messing, University Professor of Molecular Biology and Director, Waksman
Institute, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Munich (Germany)
Molecular biology of higher plants;
M13 cloning, sequencing, gene synthesis
Dimitri Metaxas,
Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, SAS; Ph.D.,
Toronto (Canada)
Physics-based modeling; computer graphics and animation;
computational vision; medical imaging
Konstantin M. Mischaikow, 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, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/CABM/CINJ; Ph.D., Cornell
Protein NMR spectroscopy; molecular
recognition; rational drug design; structural bioinformatics
Alexandre V. Morozov, Assistant Professor of Physics, SAS; Ph.D., Washington
Computational structural biology and bioinformatics;
Vikas Nanda, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, RWJMS-UMDNJ/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, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Tufts
Structure-function and dynamics of enzyme-catalyzed processes involved
in genome replication and transcription
Vladimir Pavlovic,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
(Urbana-Champaign)
Applied machine learning and probabilistic
inference; bioinformatics; computer vision; human-computer
interaction
Vincent Pirrotta, 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, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology
and Professor of Pathology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM; Deputy
Director, CINJ; Ph.D., Brown
HIV; HTLV-1; NF-kB; cancer; lymphomas;
transcription; gene expression; oncogenesis
Fred Roberts,
Professor of Mathematics, Director, DIMACS, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Discrete mathematical models; graph theory; decision making;
measurement theory
Charles M. Roth, Associate 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, 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, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland
Computational bioengineering; biomedical imaging
Eduardo Sontag, 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, Professor of Biochemistry,
UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM/CINJ; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Structure and
function of signal transduction proteins
David S. Talaga,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D.,
California (Los Angeles)
Single molecule studies of inorganic and
biological polymers; vibrational spectroscopy
Jay A. Tischfield, Professor of Genetics, 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, Visiting
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rockefeller; M.D., Yale
Tissue engineering; metabolic engineering; genomics and proteomics;
stem cell bioengineering
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Emilio Gallicchio, Associate Director of the High Performance Computing Project, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Protein
modeling; thermodynamics of binding, association, and allostery;
development of parallel and distributed computational chemistry
algorithms
John Westbrook, Associate Research Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Databases for protein and nucleic acid structures
Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty
Gabriela Alexe, Computational Biologist, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Ph.D., Rutgers
C. Chris Huang, Principal Research Scientist, Centocor; Ph.D., Stony Brook
Sandor Szalma, Director, R&D Informatics, Centocor R&D, Inc.; Ph.D., Szent-Györgyi (Hungary)
Development of data mining algorithms for translational medicine