Dr. Dorothy Buck

Research Interests: Mathematical Biology, particularly DNA and DNA-Protein Interactions, Knot Theory

Current Course: Applied Math 194, Mathematical Biology

Seminar Schedules: Applied Math, Pure Math, Biology

Presently:       

• Faculty, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University

• Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences  -- working with Craig Benham, UCDavis Genome Center
• Faculty Mentor, Mentoring Program for Women Mathematicians, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Faculty Sponsor, Rose Whelan Society, Brown University (Dr. Whelan received the first PhD in mathematics from Brown.)
• Project NExT Fellow, Forest Dot

Formerly:

• Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine  (Clarke Lab, Biophysics)

• Mathematics Faculty, Johns Hopkins University
• Mathematics Faculty, Pomona College
• Pre-doctoral Fellow, Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund
• Member of Makkuni Jayaram's Lab with Supervising Postdoc, Ian Grainge, in the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology section at the University of Texas
• PhD in Mathematics, Advisor Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas

Past Course: Applied Math 41, Mathematical Methods in the Biological Sciences

Sites Especially for Students:

• Undergrads: Get paid to do math (or science) research over the summer, try an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates
• For minority undergrads: Get paid to spend the summer doing mathematical biology at Cornell
• Undergrads and grads: Get paid to write about math/science research over the summer, try an AAAS Mass Media Science Fellows Program
• For women undergrads and grads: Get paid to spend 10 days doing mathematical biology at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Useful Math Sites:

• Preprint Server
• MathSciNet
• History of Mathematics

Useful Bio Sites:

• Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
• Holliday Junction Animation
• The Human Genome Project Databank
• Nucleic Acids Database Project
• Science Education from the Experts