Alex Mogilner
New York University (NYU) |
Alex Mogilner is a Professor of Mathematics and Biology at the Courant Institute and Department of Biology, New York University. Alex received his PhD in applied mathematics from the University of British Columbia and completed his postdoctoral work in Computational and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. His laboratory uses methods of mathematical and computational modeling, joint with experimental data analysis, to understand mechanics of cell migration, mitosis and galvanotaxis. Alex proposed a model of elastic polymerization ratchet explaining cell protrusions, models of graded actomyosin contraction and actin treadmilling array in membrane ‘bag’ predicting motile cell shapes and speeds. Together with experimentalists, he elucidated feedbacks underlying cell polarization and motility initiation. He pioneered a force-balance model of mitotic spindle, and search-and-capture model of spindle assembly.
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