Michael R. Brent Professor of  Computer Science at WU With joint appointments in Genetics and BME Ph.D in Computer Science, MIT, 1991 My research group focuses on Quantitative Systems Biology and Computational Genomics

Research

The Brent lab uses both computational and experimental methods to study circuits that control gene expression. We develop quantitative, kinetic models of signal transduction and regulatory networks at scales ranging from a single biological phenomenon (e.g. regulation of glucose transporters in yeast) to an entire cell.

Brief research summaries can be found on my School of Engineering page and my Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) page.

The lab web page contains lists of lab members, publications, software, and other resources.

We have open positions for trainees with experimental and/or computational backgrounds

• Postdoctoral fellows eligible for NIH support (US citizen or permanent resident)
• Ph.D. students (you must apply through the DBBS or a School of Engineering department)
• Undergraduate researchers

Courses

• Instructor for Algorithms for Computational Biology (CSE587A/Bio 5474). Every spring.
• Guest lecturer in Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology (Bio 5495/BME 537). Every fall.

Selected Washington U. affiliations and service

• Steering committee for the Ph.D. program in computational biology in the DBBS.
• Director of the Genome Analysis Training Program, an NIH-funded training program for predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers