Debra Knisley's Home Web Page 

Professor of Mathematics                                                                                       
307 Gilbreath Hall
(423) 439-6975
email address: knisleyd@etsu.edu

Vita

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SUMMA: Strengthening Underrepresented Minorities in Mathematical Achievement: 

ETSU SUMMA 2008 Project:  Discrete Mathematical Models in Molecular Biology: Solutions for the future

 ETSU SUMMA 2007 Project : Biomolecular Graphs

The ETSU SUMMA 2005 Project:   Graphs with applications in biology and computer science

The ETSU SUMMA 2004 Project: Graph-theoretic analysis of  RNA

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~ During the academic year 2007-2008,  I held a New Directions Visiting Professorship at the IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications). The IMA is an NSF sponsored institute located in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. The 2007-2008 thematic year: The mathematics of molecular and cellular biology.

Education:

B.S. (1976) Tennessee Technological University
M.S. (1979) Tennessee Technological University
Ph.D. (1989) University of Memphis

Research interests: 

• Graph Theory
• Applications of graph theory in molecular biology and biochemistry

Teaching information:  Fall semester 2008:

•  Linear Algebra (Math 2010)
•  Introduction to Modern Algebra (Math 4727/5127)

Upcoming Meetings-

•  MAA-SES SPRING MEETING - 2007
•  CUMBERLAND CONFERENCE - 2007
•  UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit - 2007
•  Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry
•  ISMB-ECCB 2007
•  RECOMB 2007
•  CSB 2007

Institutes: Mathematics-

•  The Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications

Institutes: Computational Biology-

•  The Institute of Quantitative Biology
•  The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge Ridge National Lab - Institute for Genome Technology

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