Institutions Harvard Known for Little b | Name Jeremy Gunawardena | |
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Alma mater University of Cambridge (Ph.D.) Fields Systems biology, Mathematical and theoretical biology, Algebraic topology | ||
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Science matters with jeremy gunawardena
Jeremy Gunawardena, a mathematician and systems biologist, is Associate Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in cellular signalling and decision making.
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Biography
Gunawardena obtained a PhD in algebraic topology from the University of Cambridge under Frank Adams, after which he spent two years as LE Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago before returning to Cambridge. He set up the first computer science courses at Chicago. After leading Hewlett-Packard's research team in Europe, he joined the faculty of systems biology at the Harvard Medical School.
Work
Gunawardena focuses on mathematical techniques in systems biology, including models for post-translational modification (multisite phosphorylation, transcription factor binding ) and other modeling of systems.
His most cited paper, "Multisite protein phosphorylation makes a good threshold but can be a poor switch" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has citations according to Google Scholar, which lists a 25 papers of his cited 25 times or more.