orn July 7, 1971 Tbilisi, USSR

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street #42 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA

Telephone: 617.496.5499 Facsimile: 617.495.3075 E-mail: dokh@wild.harvard.edu WWW: http://paradox.harvard.edu/dokh

EDUCATION:

--- B.S., Physics, 1992, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. Honors. Advisor: S. S. Gershtein
--- M.S., Physics, 1994, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. Honors. Advisors: G. Jikia & S. S. Gershtein
--- Ph.D., Physics, 1994, Boston University, USA. Advisor: H. E. Stanley

EMPLOYMENT & TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

NIH postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University. Fall 1999 - present.
Research Assistant, Physics Department, Boston University. Summer 1994; Spring 1997 - Fall 1999.
Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Boston University. Fall 1994 - Spring 1997.
Research Assistant, Institute for High Energy Physics, Russia. Fall 1991- Spring 1994.
Teacher, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Special Physics and Mathematics High School. Fall 1988 - Spring 1990.

HONORS & OTHER ACTIVITIES:

ACS Petroleum Research Fund grant to H. E. Stanley (I was a principal author of this proposal). 2001 --- 2003.
NSF Young Scientist Award for STATPHYS XXI, 2001.
Harvard University nominee for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, 2001.
NIH postdoctoral fellowship (1F32 GM20251-01). 1999 -- present.
British Petroleum Amoco research grant. 1999 --- 2001.
NSF Student Award for STATPHYS XX, 1998.
NIH molecular biophysics predoctoral traineeship (GM08291-09). 1998-1999.
British Petroleum research grant. (I was a principal author of this proposal.) 1998.
NSF Student Award for STATPHYS XIX, 1995.
"Red Diploma" 1994 (in Former USSR "Red Diploma" is awarded for outstanding achievements).
Recipient of Honorary Stipend, Moscow Institute of Physics and
Technology; 1990-1994.

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REVIEWER:

Physics Review Letters, Physics Review E, Physica A, European Physics Journal B, Journal of Chemical Physics, Biomolecular Engineering, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics, Biosystems, Journal of Molecular Biology.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

1997 -- present: Protein evolution (with E. I. Shakhnovich and L. A. Mirny, and the advice of A. Murzin and D. Vitkup); theoretical protein engineering (with E. I. Shakhnovich); protein folding kinetics and thermodynamics by means of computer simulations (with E. I. Shakhnovich, H. E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, F. Ding, and J. M. Borreguerro); structural determinants of protein folding kinetics (with M. Karplus, M. Vendruscolo, F. Ding, L. Li, and E. I. Shakhnovich).

1998 -- present: Prediction and optimization of oil recovery (with J. S. Andrade Jr., S. V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin, P. R. King, Y. Lee, G. Paul, and H. E. Stanley).

1999 -- present: Hierarchical organization of complex systems (with G. Malescio, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. Stanley).

1994 -- 1999: Small sequence repeats in coding and non-coding DNA and mechanisms of their formations (with S. Buldyrev, H. E. Stanley, and S. Havlin); clumping of oligonucleotides in DNA sequences (with S. Buldyrev, H. E. Stanley, S. Havlin, R. Stanley, and advice of M. Frank-Kamenetskii and R. Wells).

1998: Cell motility (fibroplast: theoretical and experimental work) (with S. Erramilli, M. Hong, A. Jeung, T. I. Smith, H. A. Schwettman, and P. Huie).

1993 -- 1994: The single top-quark production and $V_{tb}$ Cabbibo - Kabayashi - Maskawa matrix element measurement in high energy $e^{+} e^{-}$- collisions (with S. S. Gershtein and G. Jikia).

PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE:

Platforms - VAX, SGI, IBM, DEC, PC, Mac.
OS - DOS, Windows, MacOS, VAX VMS, UNIX, LINUX.
Languages - PC 8086/8088 Assembly, C/C$++$, Fortran/Fortran90, OpenGL, Pascal/ Delphi, Basic, Java/ JavaScript, ActiveX, HTML, Perl, Python, Awk, Inventor, VRML, Mathematica, FORM.

PRESENTATION AND IMPACT OF WORK:

INVITED TALKS:

1. The Physics Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, 1993 - Single top quark production and V-tb CKM matrix element measurement in high energy e+e- collisions.
2. Boston University, Biophysics Seminar, 1998 - Folding of 'Go' protein.
3. Harvard University, Shakhnovich Group Seminar, 1998 - Molecular dynamics simulations of protein models.
4. International Workshop on Dynamics of Non-Equilibrium Systems, Trieste, Italy, 1999 - Folding kinetics of the model protein from molecular dynamics.
5. Harvard University, Whitesides Group Seminar, 2000 - Statistical properties of DNA dimeric tandem repeats.
6. International Workshop on Protein Folding, Structure and Design, Trieste, Italy, 2001
(a) Understanding hierarchical protein evolution from the first principles,
(b) Direct observation of folding transition state ensemble of C-Src SH3 domain in molecular dynamics simulations.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

1. Statphys XIX, Xiamen, China, 1995 - Distribution of Repeats in DNA. (1995). [poster]
2. Patterns in Nature '95, and '96. Two-week summer Institutes to introduce teachers in the use of advanced technology materials, Boston University. [with colleagues] (1995, 1996). [talks]
3. International School of Physics ``Enrico Fermi'', Varenna, Italy, 1996 - Mechanism of Expansion of Simple Repeats in DNA. [poster]
4.Conference on Complex Systems, Bar Ilan University, Israel, 1997 - Model of Unequal Chromosomal Crossing Over in DNA Sequences. [poster]
5. Conference on Statistical Mechanics, Rutgers University, 1997 - Distribution of Dimeric Repeats in DNA. [talk]
6. Conference on Percolation and Disordered Systems: Theory and applications, Gie\ss en, Germany, 1998 - Scaling of the distribution of shortest paths in percolation. [poster]
7. Conference on Protein folding and structure prediction, Torino, Italy, 1998 - Molecular dynamics simulations of protein-like model. [talk]
8. American Physical Society Centennial Meeting, Atlanta, USA, 1999 - Quest for the protein folding nucleus. [talk]
9. Boston University Science Day, 1999 - Quest for the amino acids that make a protein fold. [poster]
10. The 3rd Tohwa University International Conference on Statistical Physics, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999 - Quest for the protein folding nucleus. [talk]
11. International School of Physics ``Enrico Fermi'' Course CXLV: "Protein folding, evolution and design'', Varenna, Italy, 2000 - Predicting conserved amino acids in proteins. [talk]
12. Statphys XXI, Cancun, Mexico, 2001 - A model of protein evolution. [talk]
13. Third Annual Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Brandeis University, 2001 - Direct observation of folding transition state ensemble of C-Src SH3 domain in molecular dynamics simulations. [talk]

SESSION CHAIR:

1. International workshop on protein folding, structure and design, Trieste, Italy, 2001

PRESS RELEASES ON MY RESEARCH

--- T. McNeil, Bostonia, "Percolating Texas Tea'', p. 39, December 1998.

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