Alex Mogilner

Home page: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mogilner/
Position: Professor
Year joining UC Davis: 1995
Degree: Ph.D., 1990, USSR Academy of Science; Ph.D., 1995, University of British Columbia
Refereed publications: Via Math Reviews
Recent publications: Via math arXiv

Research

Alex Mogilner does research in mathematical biology and biophysics. More specifically, he is interested in using methods of applied math, theoretical biophysics, and system biology to understand how cells move and how they divide. In the past few years, Alex has been running a lab where both experiments and modeling are done on mitotic spindles in Drosophila embryos and on crawling fish keratocyte cells.

Selected publications

[1] B. Rubinstein, K. Jacobson, A. Mogilner. " Multiscale Two-Dimensional Modeling of a Motile Simple-Shaped Cell, " SIAM J. MMS, 3:413-439 (2005) MathSciNet2122995.

[2] V. Malikov, E. N. Cytrynbaum, A. Kashina, A. Mogilner, V. Rodionov. " Centering of a radial microtubule array by translocation along microtubules spontaneously nucleated in the cytoplasm, " Nature Cell Biology, 7: 1213-1218 (2005).

[3] A. Mogilner, R. Wollman, W. Marshall. " Quantitative Modeling in Cell Biology: What Is It Good for? " Dev. Cell, 11: 279-287 (2006).

[4] E. N. Cytrynbaum, V. Rodionov, A. Mogilner. " Nonlocal mechanism of self-organization and centering of microtubule asters, " Bull. Math. Biol., 68: 1053-1072 (2006). MathSciNet2249747.

[5] C. I. Lacayo, Z. Pincus, M. M. VanDuijn, C. A. Wilson, D. A. Fletcher, F. B. Gertler, A. Mogilner, J. A. Theriot. " Emergence of Large-Scale Cell Morphology and Movement from Local Actin Filament Growth Dynamics, " PLoS Biology, 5: e233 (2007).

Honors and Awards

Last updated: 2007/02/11