Matt Bennett
Postdoctoral Fellow
NIH Kirschstein Fellow
Email:
mbennett AT ucsd.edu
Phone:
858.822.3857
My CV.
Education
Ph.D., Physics, Georgia Tech (2006)
B.S., Physics, Georgia Tech (2000)
Research Interests
My research interests generally lie in
the field of nonlinear dynamics, with particular emphasis on
synchronization, stochastic processes and non-equilibrium
statistical physics. Currently I am working to model various genetic
networks. These networks involve complex dynamical interactions
between genes and the proteins they produce. For instance, as
growing cells are exposed to fluctuating carbon sources, the
regulatory pathways that code for transport transduce the
environmental signals in different ways. It is one of the goals of
my research to understand how these pathways react to different
signals, and how the production of regulatory proteins is
subsequently affected.
Publications
- A.
Handel and M. R. Bennett, “Surviving the bottleneck:
Transmission mutants and the evolution of microbial populations,”
Submitted to Evolution (2008).
- J.
Stricker, S. Cookson, M. R. Bennett, L. S. Tsimring and J. Hasty, “A robust and tunable
synthetic gene oscillator,”
Submitted to Nature (2008).
- M.
R. Bennett, W. L. Pang, N. A. Ostroff, L. S. Tsimring and J. Hasty, “Metabolic gene regulation
in a dynamically changing environment,”
Accepted for publication in Nature (2008).
- M.
R. Bennett and J. Hasty, “Genome rewired,”
Nature 452, 824-825 (2008).
[PDF]
- T.
Lu, T. Shen, M. R. Bennett, P. G. Wolynes and J. Hasty, “Phenotypic variability of growing
cellular populations,”
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 18982-18987 (2007).
[PDF]
- C.
Grilly, J. Stricker, W. L. Pang, M. R. Bennett and J. Hasty, “A
synthetic gene network for tuning protein degradation in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae,” Mol. Sys. Bio. 3, 127 (2007).
[PDF]
- M.
R. Bennett, D. Volfson, L. Tsimring and J. Hasty, “Transient
dynamics of genetic regulatory networks,” Biophys. J. 92,
3501-3512 (2007). [PDF]
- M.
R. Bennett and J. Hasty, “A DNA methylation-based switch generates
bistable gene expression,”
Nat. Genet. (News and Views) 39, 146-147 (2007).
[PDF]
- M.
R. Bennett and K. Wiesenfeld, “Towards a unified rate theory
of stochastic resonance,” Fluct. Noise Lett. 6,
L405-L413 (2006). [Preprint]
- M.
R. Bennett, “Synchronization and Signal Enhancement in
Nonlinear and Stochastic Systems,” Ph.D. Dissertation,
Georgia Tech (2006). [PDF]
- J.
F. Lindner, M. Bennett and K. Wiesenfeld, “Potential energy
landscape and finite-state models of array-enhanced stochastic
resonance,” Phys. Rev. E 73, 031107 (2006).
[PDF]
- J.
F. Lindner, M. Bennett and K. Wiesenfeld, “Stochastic
resonance in the mechanoelectrical transduction of hair cells,”
Phys. Rev. E 72, 051911 (2005) and Virtual
Journal of Biological Physics Research 10, no. 10 (2005).
[PDF]
- M.
Bennett, K. Wiesenfeld and F. Jaramillo, “Stochastic
resonance in hair cells,” Fluct. Noise Lett. 4,
L1-L10 (2004). [PDF]
- M.
Bennett and K. Wiesenfeld, “Averaged equations for
distributed Josephson junction arrays,” Physica D 192,
196-214 (2004). [Preprint]
- M.
Bennett, M. F. Schatz, H. Rockwood and K. Wiesenfeld, “Huygens’
clocks,” Proc. Roy. Soc. London A 458,
563-579 (2002). [PDF]
