B.S., University of Minnesota, 1986; Ph.D., Washington University, 1989.

phone: 626.395.3374
location: 159 Broad Center
mail code: 114-96

Research Group |

Current research includes:

• Membrane Mechanics and Mechanosensitive Ion Channels
• Physics of DNA packaging and ejection in viruses
• Genome management and chromosome geography
• Sequence dependence of DNA elasticity
• Physics of phagocytosis
• Statistical mechanics of signaling
• Reduced alphabets for bioinformatics
• Transcriptional regulation in bacteria
• Maximum entropy and non-equilibrium physics