Computational Biology @ Lehigh
Professor Ian Laurenzi conducts research on a variety of topics in the areas of reaction engineering, biophysics, and computational biology & bioinformatics.
Research in these areas falls into five main categories:
- High-throughput screening and biotechnology for genomic characterization
- Biophysics and kinetics of cooperative bioadsoption/reaction phenomena
- Receptor-mediated phenomena
- Kinetics of aggregation and polymerization processes
- Systems Biology
We employ a wide variety of statistical and computational techniques in our research, including:
- Monte Carlo and stochastic simulation of the time evolution of large, complex chemical reaction networks
- Statistical mechanics of small systems
- Sequence analysis and bioinformatics (BLAST, MFOLD)
- Parallel computing
