• B.S. Physics, University of California, San Diego, 1989
• Ph.D. Physics, Princeton Univerisity, 1996
• Postdoctoral Research:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University, 1996-1999
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1999-2001
• Employment:
  • Research Scientist, Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2001-present
  • Team Leader, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2005-present
  • Deputy Director (acting), Center for Nonlinear Studies, 2011-2012

Research Interests:

• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• Protein Structure and Dynamics
• Gene Regulation
• Biomedical Text Mining

Selected Recent Publications:

1. M. E. Wall, S. Raghavan, J. D. Cohn, J. Dunbar. 2011. Genome majority vote improves gene predictions. PLoS Computational Biology 7:e1002284. (URL)
2. M. E. Wall, D. A. Markowitz, J. L. Rosner, R. G. Martin. 2009. Model of transcriptional activation by MarA in Escherichia coli. PLoS Computational Biology 5:e1000614. (PubMed; URL)
3. D. Ming, M. E. Wall. 2006. Interactions in native binding sites cause a large change in protein dynamics. J Mol Biol 358:213-223. (PubMed). Reprint (pdf). Preprint (pdf).
4. D. Ming, M. E. Wall. 2005. Allostery in a coarse-grained model of protein dynamics. Phys Rev Lett 95:198301. (PubMed; URL). Preprint (pdf). arXiv (q-bio.BM/0506031).
5. M.E. Wall, W.S. Hlavacek, M.A. Savageau. 2004. Design of gene circuits: lessons from bacteria. Nat Rev Genet 5:34-42. (PubMed; pdf); Online table (pdf); EcoTFs web site (URL).