• B.E. in Chemical Engineering, Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russia (1996)
• M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel (1999)
• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel (2003)
• Postdoctoral Research / Research Associate:
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2004)
  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2005-2006)
  • CNLS/T-10, LANL, Los Alamos, NM (2006-present)

Research Interests:

• Mathematical modeling, stochastic simulation methods
• Cell communication networks, signal transduction
• Reaction-diffusion systems in cell biology and chemical physics
• Pattern formation in catalysis

Selected Recent Publications:

1. A. Nag, M.I. Monine, J.R. Faeder, B. Goldstein, Aggregation of Membrane Proteins by Cytosolic Cross-Linkers: Theory and Simulation of the LAT-Grb2-SOS1 System, Biophys. J., 96, xxx (2009).
2. J. Colvin, M.I. Monine, J.R. Faeder, W.S.Hlavacek. D.D. Von Hoff, R.G. Posner, Simulation of large-scale rule-based models, Bioinformatics, xx, xxx (2009).
3. J. Yang, M.I. Monine, J.R. Faeder, W.S. Hlavacek, Kinetic Monte Carlo method for rule-based modeling of biochemical networks, Phys. Rev. E., 78, 31910 (2008).
4. M.I. Monine, J.M. Haugh, Cell population-based model of dermal wound invasion with heterogeneous intracellular signaling properties, Cell Adhesion & Migration, 2, 137 (2008).
5. M.I. Monine, J.M. Haugh, Signal transduction at point-blank range: analysis of a spatial coupling mechanism for pathway crosstalk, Biophys. J., 95, 2172 (2008).