Erik Winfree 计算机和材料科学家

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Erik Winfree
Computer and Materials Scientist | Class of 2000
Title
Computer and Materials Scientist
Location
Pasadena, California
Age
31 at time of award
Area of Focus
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Published July 1, 2000
ABOUT ERIK'S WORK
Erik Winfree is a leader in the emerging field of biomolecular computing.

He has incorporated recent advances in computer science, molecular biology, nanotechnology, and mathematics to create a novel approach to molecular computing.  Winfree has significantly expanded the concept of DNA computing by using naturally occurring molecules and enzymes to build non-naturally shaped DNA structures, such as branched DNA or two-dimensional sheets that have the potential to perform massively parallel computations.  He then applied these concepts by creating self-assembled DNA sheets in the laboratory.  In recent work, Winfree has proposed an alternative to encoding information in the DNA—that computations can be represented as interactions among artificial genes.  This proposal implies that biological cells are themselves computational devices and that understanding gene regulation may depend on identifying the calculations that they make.

BIOGRAPHY
Winfree is an assistant professor of computer science and of computation and neural systems at the California Institute of Technology.  His numerous articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Computational Biology, DNA Computers, and PLoS Biology.

Winfree received a B.S. (1991) from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. (1998) from the California Institute of Technology.

Last updated January 1, 2005




Erik Winfree
计算机和材料科学家 | 2000级
职称
计算机和材料科学家
工作地点
加州帕萨迪纳
年龄
获奖时31岁
重点领域
计算机科学和电气工程，生物工程和生物技术
发表于2000年7月1日
关于埃里克的工作
Erik Winfree是生物分子计算这一新兴领域的领导者。

他结合了计算机科学、分子生物学、纳米技术和数学的最新进展，创造了一种新的分子计算方法。 Winfree通过使用自然发生的分子和酶来构建非自然形状的DNA结构，如有可能进行大规模并行计算的支链DNA或二维片，大大扩展了DNA计算的概念。 然后，他通过在实验室中创造自组装的DNA片来应用这些概念。 在最近的工作中，温弗里提出了一种在DNA中编码信息的替代方案--计算可以被表示为人工基因之间的相互作用。 这一建议意味着生物细胞本身就是计算设备，而对基因调控的理解可能取决于识别它们的计算。

个人简历
温弗里是加州理工学院的计算机科学和计算与神经系统的助理教授。 他的许多文章出现在《计算生物学杂志》、《DNA计算机》和《PLoS生物学》等刊物上。

Winfree获得了芝加哥大学的学士学位（1991年）和加州理工学院的博士学位（1998年）。

最后更新于2005年1月1日