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Oleg A. Igoshin

 

Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California
Davis CA 95616 USA

 

oleg@ucdavis.edu

 

Phone:530-754682

 

Fax: 530-7545739

Education:

Dates:

 
bullet PhD in Physics.,  Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Advisor: Prof. George Oster
Thesis topic: Modeling of pattern formation in Myxobacteria
 

08/00 –08/04

 
bullet MSc., Chemical Physics Department, Feinberg Graduate  School,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Advisor: Prof. A. I. Burshtein,
Thesis topic: 
Diffusion assisted electron and energy transfer
 

10/98-07/00



 

 
bullet BSc,  Novosibirsk State University, Physics Department, Russia    
Chemical Physics Chair,
 Advisors: Prof. A.B. Doktorov, Dr. A.A. Kipiyanov
Thesis topic:
Application of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics methods to reacting systems.
 

1994-98


 

Professional Experience:

 

 
bullet Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biomedical Engeneering, 
UC Davis  Advisor: Prof. Michael Savageau
 Research Project: Signaling Pathways in
Bacillus Subtilis
 

09/04 –present

Research interests and expertise:

Biophysical modeling of microbiological systems:
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Pattern formation in Myxobacteria: traveling waves and aggregation patterns arising from contact signaling
- Bacterial gliding motility: A and S motility in Myxobacteria, gliding motility of Mycomplasma Pnemonia and Mycoplasma Motile

Signaling and metabolic networks:
- Bacterial signaling networks: Modeling C-signaling and Frz systems in Myxobacteria, stress response and sporulation regulation in
Bacillus Subtilis
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Design principles and common building blocks of biochemical networks
-Spatially heterogeneous biochemical networks

Molecular motors (Myosin V, Bacterial flagella motors, Portal protein)

Applied Mathematics: Diffusion reaction systems, pattern formation in  convectively dominated systems, Numerical methods for convectively dominated systems, Singular perturbation theory

Non-Markovian Chemical Kinetics (memory effects in diffusion assisted reactions, applications to electron and energy transfer kinetics, statistical mechanics of reacting systems)

 

Teaching experience:

 

- Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, Computers in Biology

- Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, Mechanics

- Teaching Assistant, Novosibirsk State University, Thermodynamics

Sping,’04

Fall,’00

Spring, ‘98

Honors and awards:

 

 -  HHMI Predoctoral fellowship award 

- Regents fellowship, UC Berkeley 

- Voevodskiy scholarship (given by Institute of Chemical Kinetics and combustion)

06/01-09/04

08/00-05/01

01/97-06/98

Personal Information:

Place of Birth: Novosibirsk, Russia;   

Date of Birth: 28 April 1977

Citizenship: Russia

Marital Status: Married

Languages: Russian (native), fluent English


References:

George Oster
University of California
201 Wellman Hall
Berkeley, CA, 94720-3112
goster@nature.berkeley.edu

Dale Kaiser
Beckman B-300
279 West Campus Drive
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5307
adkaiser@pmgm2.stanford.edu

Alex Mogilner
Dept of Mathematics
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
mogilner@math.ucdavis.edu

Michael A. Savageau
Dept of Biomedical Engineering
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-5294
masavageau@ucdavis.edu

John Neu
Department of Mathematics University of California, Berkeley 
970 Evans Hall #3840 
Berkeley, CA 94720-3840
neu@math.berkeley.edu

Eugene Krissinel
European Bioinformatics Institute
Genome Campus, Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD
UNITED KINGDOM
keb@ebi.ac.uk

             

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