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Faisal Reza

CBB Certificate Student and Biomedical Engineering PhD studentFaisal Reza

Email: faisal.reza(at)duke.edu
Web: http://www.duke.edu/~fr7
Location: CIEMAS Building 1316
Advisors: Jingdong Tian, Ph.D., Bruce R. Donald, Ph.D.
Hometown: Bronx, NY, U.S.A.

Education

Duke University
M.S., Biomedical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
S.B., Physics
S.B., Science, Technology, and Society
Minor, Biomedical Engineering
Minor, Chemistry

Research Interests

I am motivated by the conviction that natural biological entities are governed by fundamental principles and properties, which can be understood, harnessed, and extended by engineering synthetic systems using complementary computational and empirical approaches.

Recent Publications

Ma K., Reza F., Saaem I., Tian J. Versatile surface functionalization of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) with sputtered SiO2 thin film for potential BioMEMS applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2009.

Tan C., Reza F., You L. Noise-limited frequency signal transmission in gene circuits. Biophysical Journal. 2007.

Reza F., Chandran K., Feltz M., Heinz A., Josephs E., O'Brien P., Van Dyke B., Chung H., Indurkhya S., Lakhani N., Lee J., Lin S., Tang N., LaBean T., You L., Yuan F., Tian J. Engineering novel synthetic biological systems. IET Synthetic Biology. 2007.

Reza F., Zuo P., Tian J. Protein interfacial pocket engineering via coupled computational filtering and biological focusing criterion. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 2007.

Recent Posters and Abstracts

Reza F., Zuo P., Tian J. Theoretical and Empirical Perturbations of Endonuclease-DNA Biomolecular Complexes. Duke University Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering Kewaunee Event. 2007.

Tan C., Reza F., and You L. Fidelity and Speed of Signal Transmission Limited by Cellular Noise. AIChE Society for Biological Engineering First International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering. 2007.

Reza F., Zuo P., Tian J. Computational Bioengineering of Novel Genome Processing Enzymes. Duke University Institute for Genome Science and Policy Genomes@Grandover Meeting. 2006.

Tan C., Reza F., and You L. Fidelity and Speed of Signal Transmission Limited by Cellular Noise. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting BMES 2006. 2006.

Outside Interests

I enjoy simple pleasures, such as reading, pondering, traveling off the beaten path, tinkering with (and dissembling) anything within reach, design and visual arts, food and tea tasting, and sharing good anecdotes.

Quote of Interest

"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate." -William of Occam