2nd Annual Midwest Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
January 16 - January 18, 2009
Speaker: Rosemary Braun
BIOGRAPHY:
I completed my PhD in Physics in 2004 at the University of Illinois in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group under the direction of Professor Klaus Schulten. My graduate work focused on interfacial effects on protein conformation, investigated though atomic-level computer simulation and analysis of the systems'
dynamics. After remaining in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group for another year as a post-doctoral research associate, I accepted a Cancer Prevention Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During the first year of the fellowship, I pursued a Masters of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in order to better apply my research to problems of medical need, and since 2006 I have been working in the Laboratory of Population Genetics of the National Cancer Institute. In my current research I develop novel computational approaches to the analysis of noisy, high-dimensional data which are generated in modern high-throughput biology (such as gene expression microarrays and genome-wide scans), and in particular I focus on network-based models to elucidate multi-gene effects in known biological pathways.
