John Burke

Doctorate from Arizona State University Mathematics Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Cascades and Gene Regulation Advisor: Frank C. Hoppensteadt, PhD (Now Senior Vice Provost at NYU)

MS in Applied Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell BS in Applied Mathematics, University of Lowell

Postdoctoral Associate

Advisor: Douglas Lauffenburger, PhD Biological Engineering Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collaborations:

-John Albeck and Peter Sorger, PhD, Sorger Lab, Biology Dept, MIT (Apoptosis)
-Melissa Kemp, PhD, and Lucia Wille, Lauffenburger Lab, Biol Eng Div, MIT (T-cell Receptor Activation)
-Bruce Gomes, PhD, AstraZeneca
-Birgit Schoeberl, PhD, Merrimack -Bart Hendriks, PhD, Pfizer

Research Interests:

-Mathbiology, including modeling and analysis of the apoptosis, T-cell receptor activation, and ErbB signaling and trafficking networks
-Mathematics, including dynamical systems theory, and singular and random perturbation theory