Contact:
- 378 Stirling Hall, Dept of Physics, Queen's
University,
Kingston ON Canada K7L 3N6
Teaching 2017/2018:
Present Research Interests:
- Theoretical Biophysics and Molecular Medicine
It is unfortunate that physicists and biologists generally have difficulty understanding each other, not just in the words that they use, but in a deeper philosophical sense. Such is the gulf between these two communities, that the easiest option for an individual in either camp is to listen passively to the other camp, be reassured that what one heard was incomprehensible, and resume activities as normal. (From Timothy Newman's
article "Life and Death in Biophysics", Editor, Physical Biology, 2011.)
- Molecular Chromosome Biology
- Telomere biology
- Modelling the role of telomerase in cancer progression
- Modelling of complex biomolecular networks and pathways
- Stochastic simulations in systems biology
- Cancer
- Bioinformatics and model building (with members of the Queen's CRI, and the Dept. of Pathology and Molecular Medicine)
Past research projects:
- Metal-to-insulator transitions
- An approach to a fully microscopic theory of the 2d Hubbard model
- Weakly doped high-Tc cuprates - magnetic and transport properties
- Pattern formation in elastic materials
- Phase transformations of martensites
- Exact statistical mechanics of first-order
phase
transitions
- A hydrodynamic theory of coupled sound waves
and phasons in incommensurate crystals (PhD thesis - U of Toronto)
