Press release on the recently published “Neuroglobin protects nerve cells from apoptosis by inhibiting the intrinsic pathway of cell death” Link More media coverage of this work

Several invited review articles on neuroglobin inhibition of apoptosis (with T. Brittain and Brittain lab members)

Results from our Monte Carlo study of cell death (apoptosis) signaling have been supported by independent experiments.

NIH R01: A novel computational model of B cell signaling and activation (PI)

Co-Chair: 10th UC Wide Bioengineering Symposium 2009 (Computation in Silico and Biosystems Modeling)

2011 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) meting poster presentation: (i) Affinity discrimination in B cells requires kinetic proofreading (presented by postdoc Philippos Tsourkas), (ii)  The effect of B cell receptor affinity for antigen on lipid mediated BCR microclustering (presented by graduate student Paul Yu-Yang)

2010 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Junior Faculty Travel Grant

Reviewer: NIH Modeling Immunity for Biodefense program (2010)

BMES 2010 Oral Presentation: Bcl-2 and XIAP inhibit apoptosis by modulating intrinsic variations in the mitochondrial pathway (session: Signals and Networks in Cancer)

Invited review article for The World Journal of Clinical Oncology: How can we kill cancer cells: insights from the computational models of apoptosis

Invited review article for Frontiers in Bioscience: Timing is everything: stochastic origins of cell-to-cell variability in cancer cell death (with D. Wlodkowic and J. Skommer)

Invited to participate in the workshop Imaging, Interpretation and Modeling in Modern Immunology (Banff, Canada, April 2011).                                  Talk title: How B cells discriminate antigen affinity (over five orders of magnitude)