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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2012-2014 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics 118  

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)

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 Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, 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

David A. Case, 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, 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
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

Charalampos (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

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, 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, and gene synthesis

Dimitri Metaxas, 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, 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 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; molecular recognition; rational drug design; structural bioinformatics

Alexandre V. Morozov, Associate Professor of Physics, SAS; Ph.D., Washington
Computational structural biology and bioinformatics; macromolecular simulations; transcriptional regulation


Vikas Nanda, Associate 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 

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, 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 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

 
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