Thursday, September 5, 2013, 3pm
Location: Room 1110 of the Nguyen Engineering Building
Jason Kinser
School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences
George Mason University
Modelling of F-Actin Fibers within
Constrained Geometries
Abstract
Understanding the mechanics of a cell and how these mechanics react to
diseases and pharmaceutical treatments is a key to providing effective
treatment for some very difficult diseases. This project creates
tools to simulate F-acting fiber structures in cells with constricted
geometries. These simulations are driven by optimizing several
energy terms and the result is an indication as to how each energy is
required to create the realistic images. Knowledge of these terms
are then interpreted to determine the changes in the cell brought on by
the disease or treatment.
Brief biography
Dr. Jason Kinser has been on faculty at GMU for 17 years and taught in
several departments including SPACS, CSI, Bioinformatics, Biology and
Forensic Sciences. He has been a visiting scientist at the Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH-Stockholm), the University of Mauritius,
the Korean University, Berkeley National Lab and Frederick National
Lab. He has authored texts on bioinformatics applications in
python and on pulsed image processing.