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Appendix G: Committee Biographies
Appendix G: Committee Biographies
Pages 344-352
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After postdoctoral appointments at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, he returned to Berkeley to join the faculty in 1986. In late 1990 he moved to the newly formed NEC Research Institute (now the NEC Laboratories)
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Bialek participated in summer courses at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, serving as the co-director of the computational neuroscience course in the summers of 1998 through 2002. He also helped lead a major educational experiment at Princeton to create a truly integrated and mathematically sophisticated introduction to the natural sciences for first-year college students.
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Their focus is primarily on the dynamics and population genetics of natural selection in asexual popula tions such as microbes and viruses, which are often dominated by the random fluctuations in when and where rare mutational events occur. They are developing new approaches to population genetic theory to better understand the structure of genetic variation in these populations.
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that consists of undergraduate researchers who, while majoring in different fields of science, conduct collaborative research on specific biological problems and function as a single interdisciplinary research group. The QBReC program includes a freshman year laboratory and lecture course, which introduces students to science in an integrated fashion, combining physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics, and collaborative research and mentorship opportunities.
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He is the founding executive chair of the Faraday Institution, the United Kingdom's independent center for electrochemical energy storage science and technology supporting research, training, and analysis. He began his career with almost 20 years at Bell Laboratories, ultimately serving for 5 years as the head of Theoretical Physics Research.
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Energy landscape theory and the funnel concept provide the framework needed to pose and to address the questions of protein folding and function mechanisms. He developed the tunneling pathways concept for electron transfer in proteins.
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His research concerns the innovation of novel optical imaging technologies and their use in the pursuit of understanding neural circuits. The Schnitzer Lab has invented two forms of fiber optic imaging, one- and two-photon fluorescence microendoscopy, which enable minimally invasive imaging of cells in deep brain tissues.
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She has pioneered an integrated approach that demonstrates how cellular structures composed of the microtubule, filamentous actin, and integrin adhesion proteins are dynamically built and maintained; how they physically interact with one another; and how cell signaling coordinates their structure and dynamics to specifically mediate cell migration. Her work has shown that specific transient protein-protein interactions in a "molecular clutch" generate organized and directed forces in the cytoskeleton and transmit them through integrin-based focal adhesions to the extracellular environment to drive cell motility and morphogenesis of the vasculature.
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