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DNA surface

 

Guowei  Wei,

Professor

Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Affiliation:  Quantitative Biology  Initiative


Contact information:

Department  of  Mathematics
Michigan State University
D301 Wells Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone:  517 353 4689

Departmental  Fax: 517 432 1562
Email: wei@math.msu.edu                 

           weig@egr.msu.edu

 

Research Interests:

 

Current  research grants/projects:

  • PI, NSF DMS-0616704, 08/06-07/10, Mathematical modeling of biomolecular surfaces
  • PI, Contract from Virginia Tech (source: NIH CA127189, PI Ge Wang), 08/07-07/10, Temperature-modulated Bioluminescence Tomography
  • PI, NIH  R01GM090208, 07/09-07/13, Geometric flow approach to implicit solvation modeling
  • PI, NSF CCF0936830, 09/09- 09/12, Differential geometry approach for virus surface formation, evolution and visualization

 

Software packages:

  • MIBPB (Software package for the estimation of electrostatic properties of biomolecules)

 

Publication:


Teaching:

  • Fall 2009:           None
  • Spring 2010:      None
  • Course  taught
     

Students and  Postdocs:

  • 9 PhD  candidates, including 3 exchange students,  are  currently  in  my  group
  • Graduated  8  PhD  students
  • Graduated  7  master  students
  • Supported  14  postdoctoral  associates

 

Some recent  group alumni:

  • Weihua Geng, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan  (PhD 2008)
  • Yuhui Sun, Analyst,  Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN (Ph.D. 2007)
  • Sining Yu, Structured  transaction analyst,  International Power America  (PhD 2007)
  • Yongcheng  Zhou, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Colorado State University  (PhD 2006)
  • Yibao  Zhao,  Lecturer (tenure-track), Singapore Management University  (Ph.D. 2004)
  • Shan Zhao, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Alabama  (Ph.D. 2003)
  • Zujun Hou,  Research Scientist, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium  (Ph.D. 2003)
  • Shuguang Guan,  Professor,  East  China  Normal  University  (Ph.D. 2002).
  • Meng Zhan, One-hundred-talent-plan Professor, Wuhan Institute of Physics and  Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Postdoc, 2001-2002)
  • Zhenhai Shao, Project leader, Cubic Micro Design, Singapore  (Postdoc, 2000-2001)
  • Baofeng Feng, Associate Professor, University of Texas –Pan American (Postdoc, 2000-2001)
  • Prasad Patnaik, Assistant  Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Postdoc, 1999-2001)
  • Decheng Wan, Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong  University, China  (Postdoc, 1999-2001)

 

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Positions available:

  • Graduate  Studentship (Join us if you want to become a professor in a major research university or a leader in industry.)
  • Postdoctoral Associate (Offer to a candidate who can do our research.)

 

Recent proposal  review  panels:

  • NSF: April 2009; March 2009; January 2009
  • NSF: June 2008; April 2008
  • NSF: May 2007
  • NSF: November 2006; October 2006
  • NSF: October 2005; May 2005
  • NSF: May 2004; 
  • World Class University: International Review Panel (DC, April, 2009)
  • MSU: May 2009; March 2009
  • MSU: March 2008; February 2008

 

Honorary editor/Associate editor/Editorial board:

 

 Guest editor:

·        International Journal of  Biomedical  Imaging

·        Medical Physics

·        Communicationsfor Numerical Methods in Engineering

 

Recent/upcoming conferences: