| Pankaj Mehta Assistant Professor of Physics Boston University Office: SCI 323 Phone:
617-358-6303
Boston University Department of Physics 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02139 Email: pankajm AT bu.edu Cirriculum vitae |
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| Research
Interests: I am interested in theoretical problems at the interface of physics and biology. I want to understand how large-scale, collective behaviors observed in biological systems emerge from the interaction of many individual molecular elements, and how these interactions allow cells to perform complex computations in response to environmental cues. I started a blog that I hope to udpate regularly. Group: Charles Fisher (Postdoc), Alex Lang (Graduate), Javad Noorbakhsh (Graduate), Joseph Samaniego-Evans (Undergrad) Awards and Funding: Sloan Fellowship, NIH K25 Career Development Award Postdoc Opening The group has an opening for a postdoctroal position in theoretical biological physics. We are looking for people with a demonstrated ability in any branch of theoretical physics and a willingness to learn biology. Interested parties can send me an email with research interests and an updated CV. Current projects: Quorum Sensing in bacteria Collective Behavior in Dictyostelium Synthetic Biology Cellular Reprogramming Bird songs and computational neuroscience Statistical mechanics, machine learning, and large biological data sets Physics problems inspired by biological systems Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics Publications: To find out more about my research please look at my publications with links to pdf files. Teaching: Fall 2012: PY501: Mathematical methods for Physicists. Quantitative Biology at BU: I am helping to organize the Systems biology seminar as well as Systems/Synthetic Biology Journal Club. Please email me with any speaker suggestions or if you want to participate in the Journal Club. I talk to various people at BU working in biology and often attend their group meetings. Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at BUMC Jim Collins Lab Tim Gardner's Group Daniel Segre's group Mo Khalil's lab Joyce Wong's lab Wilson Wong's lab Other Collaborators: (links forthcoming) Bonnie Bassler's Lab Sidhartha Goyal Thomas Gregor- Laboratory for the physics of life. Tao Long Troy Mestler (grad student in Gregor Lab) David Schwab Anirvan Sengupta Shu-wen Teng Ned Wingreen- my postdoctoral advisor. |