It is unfortunate that physicists and biologists generally have difficulty understanding each other, not just in the words that they use, but in a deeper philosophical sense. Such is the gulf between these two communities, that the easiest option for an individual in either camp is to listen passively to the other camp, be reassured that what one heard was incomprehensible, and resume activities as normal.
— From Timothy Newman's article "Life and Death in Biophysics", Editor, Physical Biology, 2011
Molecular Chromosome Biology
Telomere biology
Modelling the role of telomerase in cancer progression
Modelling of complex biomolecular networks and pathways
Stochastic simulations in systems biology
Cancer pathologies as characterized by AI
Bioinformatics and classification models (with members of the Queen's CRI, and the Dept. of Pathology and Molecular Medicine)
Past research projects:
Metal-to-insulator transitions
An approach to a fully microscopic theory of the 2d Hubbard model
Weakly doped high-Tc cuprates - magnetic and transport properties
Pattern formation in elastic materials
Phase transformations of martensites
Exact statistical mechanics of first-order phase transitions
A hydrodynamic theory of coupled sound waves and phasons in incommensurate crystals (PhD thesis - U of Toronto)
