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Animesh Ray, PhD
Professor, Director of the PhD Program, Director of the Center for Network Studies

Areas of Expertise:
  • DNA Protein Biosensors
  • Epigenetic Regulation
  • Gene Function
  • Gene Regulatory Networks
  • Genomics
  • Homologous Recombination
  • MicroRNA
  • Melanoma Biology
  • Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
  • Molecular Computing
  • Nanotechnology
  • Plant Development
  • Plant Molecular Biology
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Systems Biology

Animesh Ray applies systems biology approaches to studying chromosome dynamics, imprinting, and gene regulation. His laboratory has co-discovered and patented a gene that is central to micro-RNA metabolism in plants. He has been a pioneer in computing with molecules, and has designed the first artificial logic circuits with DNA. His current research focus is on deciphering and analyzing complex gene-regulatory networks and their evolutionary mechanisms.  He conducted research on molecular mechanisms of homologous recombination at the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, and in the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously he was a faculty member at the University of Rochester, an adjunct professor at the UC San Diego, a visiting professor at Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, and also at the University of Hyderabad in India.  He currently teaches courses on molecular systems biology that includes the logic and methods of gene function discovery and the application of this work to human therapeutics, molecular mechanisms of diseases, and the impact of personal genomics on human health.  He was previously a research director at a startup plant biotechnology company in San Diego while on sabbatical leave from the University of Rochester, and served on the Scientific Advisory Board of a venture fund company, Finistere Partners, LLC.  He is the director of KGI's PhD program and also of the Center for Network Studies. Professor Ray earned his PhD in microbial genetics from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

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Animesh Ray
909/607-9729
Animesh_Ray@kgi.edu

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