Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Christine E. Heitsch Assistant Professor School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| Office: Skiles 226 | Phone: 404.894.4758 | Email: lastname at math dot gatech dot edu | ||
| Fax: 404.894.4409 | Street Address: 686 Cherry St., Atlanta, GA 30332-0160 | |||
| March 2009: I am currently accepting applications for a Postdoc in Discrete Mathematical Biology. | ||||
| April 2008: The Math/CS/Bio Postdoc in RNA Research for position has now been filled. | ||||
| Research | My interdisciplinary research lies at the emerging interface between discrete mathematics and molecular biology; I focus on combinatorics "as motivated by" and "with applications to" fundamental biomedical questions about the structure and function of nucleotide sequences. Through my mathematical results, I investigate the underlying principles which govern the coding of biological information in DNA words and RNA secondary structures. | |||
| Funding | I am funded by my Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and an NIH R01 through the Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research in the Area of Mathematical Biology. | |||
| Advising | Students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in discrete mathematical biology at Georgia Tech can do so through a PhD in Mathematics as well as a number of different interdisciplinary graduate programs on campus including the PhD Program in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization and the Computational Science and Engineering PhD, as well as the Bioinformatics PhD Program. | |||
| Teaching | This semester I am teaching a section of Math 2406: Abstract Vector Spaces. Last year, I taught our two semester Abstract Algebra sequence, Math 4107 and Math 4108. In 2007--2008, I taught a special topics course, Math 8803/4803: Discrete Mathematical Biology in the spring and was a visitor at the IMA for the program on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the fall. During my first year at Tech, I twice taught Math 3012: Applied Combinatorics. | |||
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