Christine E. Heitsch Associate Professor School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology

Office: Skiles 211B

Phone: 404.894.4758

Fax: 404.894.4409

Email: lastname at math dot gatech dot edu

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Recruiting	The postdoctoral position in Discrete Mathematical Biology for 2012 has been filled. If interested in future opportunities, please send a brief CV.
Research	My work lies at the interface between discrete mathematics and molecular biology; I am interested in combinatorial problems "as motivated by" and "with applications to" fundamental biomedical questions like RNA folding. Publications are listed here.
Funding	My research is funded by a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and an NIH R01 grant through the Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research in the Area of Mathematical Biology.
Meetings	Over the past few years, I have been an invited speaker at a variety of meetings including a workshop on Applications of Schubert calculus at the University of Iowa in March 2011. the Frontiers in Mathematical Biology: NSF-NIH PIs Meeting at the University of Maryland in April 2010, the Algorithms in MacroMolecular Modeling Conference at the University of Texas in Nov 2009, the Mathematical Developments Arising from Biology Workshop at MBI in Nov 2009, the International Summer School on BioInformatics and Computational Biology in Lipari, Italy, in June 2009, the Opening Workshop for the SAMSI Program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics in Sept 2008, and the RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Workshop at the IMA in Oct 2007. I was also a visitor at the IMA in fall 2007 for the program on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Service	I serve on the Board of Advisors for NIMBioS and participate in the Visiting Lecturer Program through MBI. Locally, I am involved in initiatives at Tech to connect math with biology.
Affiliations	Additional institutional affiliations include a courtesy appointment in the School of Biology, and associations with the Integrative BioSystems Institute, the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, and the Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO) Program.
Advising	Students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in discrete mathematical biology at Georgia Tech can do so through a number of different PhD programs including: Mathematics, ACO, CSE, and Bioinformatics.
Teaching	Last year, I taught a new "bridge" class (from calculus to upper level mathematics): Math 4803 HEH: Foundations of Mathematical Proof, offered as a special topics course in the fall and in the spring. Previously at Tech, I have taught Math 2406: Abstract Vector Spaces, Math 2602: Linear and Discrete Mathematics (twice), Math 3012: Applied Combinatorics (twice), our two semester Abstract Algebra sequence, Math 4107 and Math 4108, and our two semester Analysis sequence, Math 4317 and Math 4318. In spring 2008, I taught a special topics course Math 8803/4803: Discrete Mathematical Biology.
Links	Publications Spring 2010 CV Brief Bio

C. E. Heitsch
Last significant modification 21.08.06