• Professional Training:
  • 1999-2004: Ph. D. in Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • 2004-2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University
  • 2007-2008: Director's Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CNLS and T-6
  • 2009-current: J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CNLS, T-6 and CCS-3

Research Interests:

• Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
• Applications of statistical physics in biology:
• Nucleo-cytoplasmic transport
• Population biology of microorganisms
• Quantitative immunology

Selected Recent Publications:

1. A. Zilman, V. V. Ganusov, A. S. Perelson, Stochastic models of lymphocyte proliferation and death, Submitted  
2. A. Zilman, T. Jovanovic-Talisman, S. Di Talia, B. T. Chait, M. P. Rout, M. O. Magnasco, Enhancement of transport selectivity through nano-channels by non-specific competition, PLoS Computational Biology (2010),   in press
3. A. Zilman, J. Pearson, G. Bel, Effects of jamming on non-equilibrium transport times through nano-channels, Physical Review Letters, 103, 128103 (2009)
4. A. Zilman, Effects of multiple occupancy and inter-particle interaction on selective transport through narrow channels: theory versus experiment, Biophyiscal Journal,  96, 1235 (2009),
5. T. Jovanovic-Talisman, J. Tetenbaum-Novatt, A. S. McKenney, A. Zilman, R. Peters, M. P. Rout, B. Chait, Artificial nanopores that mimic the selectivity of the nuclear pore complex, Nature,  457, 1023 (2009)
6. A. Zilman, S. Di Talia, B. Chait, M. Rout, M. Magnasco, Efficiency, selectivity and robustness of the transport through the nuclear pore complex, PLoS Computational Biology,   e127 (2007)
7. H. Salman, A. Zilman, C. Loverdo, J. Jeffroy, A. Libchaber, Solitary modes of bacterial culture in a temperature gradient, Physical Review Letters, 97, 118101 (2006)