Research
I am in Professor Linda Petzold's computational science research group in the computer science department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I work in the broad fields of computational biology and systems biology.
My Ph.D. research has been funded by an NSF IGERT Fellowship in Computational Science and Engineering and by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I have worked on projects that have been funded by NSF, NIH, DOE, Pfizer, and the UCSB Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies.
- My current research is in multiscale algorithms for stochastic simulation in systems biology. I helped design and develop StochKit2.0 (download here).
- Previously, I was involved in a diabetes research project funded by Pfizer.
- I was also involved with a collaboration with the CACR at Caltech. Sean Mauch has a stochastic simulation package in his template library and a GUI application available on SourceForge.
Before graduate school, I worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where I worked on Parkinson's disease research. You can see my Mayo publications on PubMed.
The images on the right are from my previous insulin resistance pathway (diabetes) research--they show the response of a glucose transporter to insulin for different models. The image on the left is from my undergraduate research on numerical solutions of the wave equation.
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