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
