{"id":351,"date":"2019-11-21T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=351"},"modified":"2023-07-11T13:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T17:09:37","slug":"pankaj-mehta","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/profile\/pankaj-mehta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pankaj Mehta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research Interests:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Biological and Statistical Physics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am interested in theoretical problems at the interface of statistical physics and biology. I want to understand how large-scale, collective behaviors observed in biological systems emerge from the interaction of many individual molecular elements, and how these interactions allow cells to perform complex computations in response to environmental cues. I am also a part of the BU<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/\">Bioinformatics<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>Program and the BUMC<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbin\/stemcells\/\">Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>, and the BU<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bdc\/\">Biological Design Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and complete list of publicaitons please visit my <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.bu.edu\/~pankajm\">webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications:<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;An exact mapping from the Variational Renormalization Group to Deep Learning&#8221; Pankaj Mehta and David Schwab. (arxiv).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Intracellular Signaling to Population Oscillations: Bridging Scales in Collective Behavior\u201d Allyson Sgro, David Schwab, Javad Noorbakhsh, Troy Mestler, Pankaj Mehta, Thomas Gregor.<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Molecular Systems Biology<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>11<\/strong>: 799 (2015). (arxiv)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEpigenetic landscapes explain partially reprogrammed cells and identify key reprogramming genes.\u201d Alex Lang, Hu Li, J.J. Collins, Pankaj Mehta.<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>PLoS Computational Biology<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>10<\/strong>(8): e1003734 (2013).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transition between the niche and neutral regimes in ecology\u201d Charles Fisher and Pankaj Mehta.<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Proc. Natl. Acad Sci<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>36<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>13111\u201313116 (2014).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Energetic Cost of Cellular Computation.\u201d Pankaj Mehta and David Schwab.<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Proc. Natl Acad. Sci<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>109<\/strong>(44), 17978-17982, (2012).<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of publications, please see the <a href=\"\/physics\/files\/2021\/05\/Mehta_CV.pdf\">attached CV<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Honors\/Awards:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sloan Research Fellow<\/li>\n<li>Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award, Boston University (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Simons Investigator in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":15235,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/351\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}