I am an Assistant Professor at the
Mathematics Department at
San Francisco State University.
I am currently a visiting scholar at the UC berkeley
Mathematics Department and you can
occasionally find me in my office (913 Evans Hall) or visiting the
computational and mathematical biology group led by
Professor Rainer Sachs.
Follow one of the links at the bottom of this page for a brief
description of my research interests (a bit out of date...). Here is a
link to my
new website.
I am very interested in undergradute research mentoring. I have
mentored many research projects on DNA topology in the last 8 years.
Contact me at mariel@math.sfsu.edu to hear more about it, or if you are
interested in Undergraduate Research at Berkeley go to
URAP (Undergraduate
Research Apprentice Program) where you can read current joint projects
with Professor Sachs.
In Spring 2003 Professor Javier Arsuaga and I taught the course "Math
195-Section3: Analyzing DNA Topology with Mathematical and
Computational Methods". Click
here to
see the poster (or download the
pdf file).
We currently teach this course (
Math414/
Math714)
each Spring semester at San Francisco State University (Math
Department). This is a paired undergraduate/graduate class which can
also be taken by Berkeley students via cross-registration. The lectures
are video-streamed so that you may take the course online, except for a
final presentation which takes place at SFSU at the end of the
semester. If you have comments or interest in this course please feel
free to contact me at mariel@math.sfsu.edu.