Assistant Software

Michael L. Blinov

Department of Mathematics

Weizmann Institute of Science

Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL

Phone: +972-*-***-****(w)/3171(h)

Fax: +972-*-***-****

e-mail: ******@******.********.**.**

URL: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~blinov

Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group,

Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA

Phone: +1-505-***-**** (w)

Fax: +1-505-***-****

e-mail: *******@****.***

PERSONALDate/Place of Birth: December 22, 1973, Moscow, Russia

Marital Status: Single

Citizenship: Russia

Languages: English, Russian, Hebrew, some German

HIGHLIGHTSExtensive web-programming experience (scientific databases and online

software systems, commercial web-sites, XML, SSL etc)

Extensive research experience with differential equations and dynamical

systems.

Math modeling of complex biological systems, network analysis.

Signal transduction and bioinformatics experience.

Deep background in theoretical mathematics, including Riemann Surfaces,

elliptic functions, Hilbert 16th problem and representability and

composition of

rational functions.

EDUCATION AND RESEARCHJune 2001 - present,

Position: Graduate Research Assistant

Project leaders: William S. Hlavacek and Byron Goldstein

Research: 1) Modeling of complex biological systems. Large network analysis.

2) Databases and XML encodings.

1997 - present,

Position: Ph.D. student

Scientific adviser: Professor Yosef Yomdin

Research: Center conditions for trigonometric equations. Riemann Surfaces. Elliptic functions.

1995 - 1997,

Degree: M.Sc. (September, 1997)

Scientific adviser: Professor Yosef Yomdin

Research: Center conditions for polynomial equations. Polynomial representability.

GPA:95.44/100.00

1991 - 1995,

Degree: B.Sc. (July, 1995)

GPA:5/5

CONFERENCES International Conference on Systems Biology, Pasadena, CA,

USA. November 4-7, 2001

Posters: 1) "Database of models for Ligand-Receptor Binding"

2) "A detailed kinetic model of immunoreceptor signaling"

Bridging the Canyon: Biology at LANL", Santa Fe, NM,

USA. September 12-13, 2001

Poster: "Analysis of Cell-Signaling Networks: Which reactions in the

Network are the Most Important?"

Summer School on Dynamics Systems, CIME, Cetraro, Italy, June

18-26, 2000

Talk: Abel Differential Equations on Rational Curves".

Conference on "Geometrie des equations differentielles",

Marseiile, France, October 3-10, 1999

Talk: "Center and Composition Conditions for Abel equation, and Rational Curves".

The National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Nonlinear Partial

Differential Equations, Irvine, California, January 4-8, 1999

AWARDS Fellowships of the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, 1995-2002

The National Academy of Sciences Travel Grant, 1999

International Science Foundation Grant #MQO000, 1994-1995

Soros Student Grant for distinguished successes in studies, 1994-1995

PUBLICATIONS: MATHEMATICAL TRACK "Center and Composition Conditions for Abel Differential Equation,

and rational curves" (with Y.Yomdin), Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems

2 (2001), 111-127 "Generalized center conditions and multiplicities for polynomial Abel

equations of small degrees" (with Y.Yomdin), Nonlinearity 12 (1999),

1013-1028. .

"Some computations around the Center problem, related to the

algebra of univalued polynomials", M.Sc. Thesis, Weizmann Institute

of Science, 1997 .

"Computer led tour into Number Theory" (with N. Zehavi), submitted. .

PUBLICATIONS: BIOLOGICAL TRACK "Combinatorial Complexity in Immunoreceptor Signaling", by M.

L. Blinov, J. R. Faeder, B. Goldstein, W. S. Hlavacek, A.

Redondo, C. Wofsy. In preparation

"Modeling the early Signaling events Mediated by FceRI",

by B. Goldstein, J. R. Faeder, W. S. Hlavacek, M.

L. Blinov, A. Redondo and C. Wofsy. To appear in Molecular

Immunology, 2002

"Database of Models for Ligand-Receptor Binding in XML-based formats", in preparation.

COMPUTER SKILLS Web programming: Perl, PHP, Java, MySQL. Development of

database of cell-signaling models and related processing software

commercial web sites, and

different biological applications

Programming languages: Perl, PHP, JAVA, C, FORTRAN, Basic

Math programming: Mathematica, MatLab, Maple, Derive

Operating systems: UNIX/Sun, Linux, Irix/SGI, DOS, Windows, OS/2

Software: all the standard PC and UNIX software.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE1999-2000 Lecturer for the course "Mathematical Modeling in Biology" (Prof. Lee Segel, WIS)

1998 Teaching assistant for the course "Computer Algebra Systems" (Dr. N. Zehavi, WIS)

1997-1998 Mentor, Summer Science Institute of the WIS, International and Israeli Camps

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLSProgramming Team leader, 1999-2001. Supervised stuff of 2

programmers. Duties included software and hardware purchase, projects

description and negotiations with customers.

Coordinator of Math projects, 1999-2000. Summer Science Institute of the WIS,

International Camp. Duties included hiring mentors and selecting students

(interviewing and overall assessment), training mentors, preparation of reports,

presentations, checking results and considering all the claims.

Mentor, 1997-1998. Supervised 2 preuniversity students working on

scientific projects.

1998

ADDITIONAL MATH SKILLSVision algorithms and image processing

Bioinformatics

Numerical methods, cryptography

Low dimensional topology, knots and links

Educational methods

HOBBIESYachting (Royal Yacht Association Day Skipper Certificate)

Rafting

Catamaran Sailing

Modeling (plastic, wood and cardboard models)

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