User:Jayajit Das

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 * Jayajit Das

Assistant Professor

Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine

The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Departments of Pediatrics, Physics, Integrated Biomedical Science and Biophysics Graduate Programs

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43205

Email: das.70 @ osu.edu; jayajit.das @ nationwidechildrens.org ; jayajit @ gmail.com

Phone: 614-355-4526 (work)

Fax:  614-355-2928

Education and Professional Experience

 * 2005-2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * 2002-2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley
 * 2000-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Institute of Polytechnic and State University
 * 2000     Ph.D. Physics, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
 * 1996     M.Sc. Physics, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (Madras) India
 * 1994     B.Sc. Physics, Presidency College, Kolkata(Calcutta), India

My lab uses theoretical and computational approaches based on statistical physics to uncover basic mechanistic principles underlying our innate and adaptive immune response. Obtaining such mechanistic principles from experimental observations alone is often difficult because the pertinent processes include co-operative dynamic events with many participating components. A further complication that confounds intuition is stochastic fluctuations in these systems with small numbers of molecules. However, by synergistically integrating observations from experiments with transgenic animals, single molecule techniques and imaging studies probing molecular events in live animals with these theoretical and computational approaches we can provide system-level understanding into such complex systems. The mechanistic insight gained from such studies not only will help develop future experiments to unravel basic principles of our immune system, but may also help envision therapeutic strategies for infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders.

Lab members
Sayak Mukherjee (Ph.D Physics, V.Tech) Postdoc

Michael Dworkin (Math Major, OSU) Undergraduate

Justin Wiser (Math, OSU) Graduate student working for a summer project

Katherine Williams (MBI) Graduate student working on a joint project with Avner Friedman (MBI)

Birra Abdurehman (Math Major, OSU) Undergraduate

Adam LaChappelle (Metro High School Research Project)

Selected Publications

 * 1) Paper1 pmid=20923636
 * 2) Paper2 pmid=20029448
 * 3) Paper3 pmid=19566183
 * 4) Paper4 pmid=19366993
 * 5) Paper5 pmid=19167334
 * 6) Paper6 pmid=19098101
 * 7) Paper7 pmid=18760640
 * 8) Paper8 pmid=18025473
 * 9) Paper9 pmid=17360359
 * 10) Paper10 pmid=17346997

Useful links

 * Detailed CV: [[Image:das_cv_jan_09_web.pdf]]

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 * More details at http://www.mathmed.org/#Jayajit_Das

Jobs
Graduate Student: Students with a background in Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Science or Chemical Engineering are encouraged to apply.