Jeff Gore's Website

On September 1st I started a lab in the MIT physics department. If you are interested in joining a biophysics lab studying evolutionary dynamics and systems biology please email me!

Over the last few years I have been a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT physics department with additional support from an NIH K99 Pathways to Independence Award (if you are applying for a K99 check out my blog post for advice). I have been working with Alexander van Oudenaarden studying the evolution of cooperation using sucrose metabolism in yeast as a model experimental system (go to paper here).

I graduated in December 2005 with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley with financial support from a Hertz Graduate Fellowship. My research was in experimental single-molecule biophysics in the laboratory of Professor Carlos Bustamante (mostly in collaboration with the Cozzarelli lab). My primary research was in the study of twist and torque in single DNA molecules.

Before starting my postdoc I did a three-month science policy fellowship at the National Academy of Sciences studying science education at the undergraduate level with the Board on Science Education. My time at the Academies convinced me that relatively modest changes to the way that we teach can significantly increase student learning (article by Carl Wieman in Physics Today).

I also enjoy hiking, tennis, volleyball, economics, politics, and reading. In my (very limited) free time I am also trying to retire the penny. If you are looking for a good book to read (especially non-fiction), check out my books page.

Talks, Conferences, & News

This section now updated on my lab website.

Upcoming

February 20 - 24, 2010: Biophysical Society Meeting (in San Francisco!). I am trying to increase the number of systems biology presentations so I encourage everyone to attend!

Past

July 22 - 27, 2009: Gordon Conference in Microbial Population Biology (Unfortunately I won't be able to attend, but it looks interesting...).

May 27 - June 1, 2009: Cold Spring Harbor, 74th Symposium -- Evolution: The Molecular Landscape

April 6, 2009: My paper "Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast" was published AOP in Nature. You can also read the Tech Talk article.

March 6, 2009: Harvard Medical School Systems Biology Theory Lunch

March 2, 2009: I will present a poster at the Biophysical Society Meeting in Boston

February 26, 2009: Penn Bioengineering Seminar

Feb 13, 2009: MIT Condensed Matter/ Biophysics Seminar (Physics)

Feb 9, 2009: UCSF QB3 Systems Biology Seminar

January 30, 2009: MIT Biology Research Symposium

January 29, 2009: My paper "Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast" was accepted by Nature.

January 27, 2009: UC Santa Barbara Physics Department Colloquium.

January 15, 2008: The News & Views I wrote with Alexander on the synthetic construction of robust and tunable oscillations in cells was published in Nature.

January 14, 2008: Physics lectures for the MIT community (IAP activity).

December 2, 2008: Stanford Bioengineering Forum (again!)

October 30, 2008: Johns Hopkins Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

September 30, 2008: MIT Bioengineering, Molecular Biomechanics and Biophysics Seminar Series. On my graduate work!

September 23, 2008: Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Kids Seminar Series

September 10, 2008: Boston University Physical Chemistry Seminar Series

September 1, 2008: Started getting funded by an NIH K99 Pathways to Independence Award. I get 10% of my funding from the Pappalardo Fellowship Program so I am still invited to the lunches and dinners...

August 8, 2008: q Bio Conference, Contributed Talk

June 10, 2008: Stanford Bioengineering Forum

May 16, 2008: Pappalardo Symposium (MIT physics)

April 9, 2008: I was the guest on The Colbert Report for my anti-penny crusade.

February 10, 2008: I was interviewed for 60 Minutes about why we should retire the penny

February 20, 2008: MIT Condensed Matter Seminar Series