Michael W. Deem
Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Rice Research Institute of Iran
United States of America
Biography
Michael W. Deem works in the area of evolution, immunology, and materials. He has brought tools from statistical physics to bear on problems in these areas. Of particular focus to him are those biological issues involving randomness, diversity, and correlations. Deem has developed methods to quantify vaccine effectiveness and antigenic distance for influenza, methods to sculpt the immune system to mitigate immunodominance in dengue fever, a physical theory of the competition that allows HIV to escape from the immune system, and the first exact solution of a mathematical model of evolution that accounts for cross-species genetic exchange.
Research Interest
Immune response to variable or multi-strain viruses and vaccines, Physical theories of pathogen evolution,Vaccine design.
Publications
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Eari DJ, Deem MW (2005) Parallel tempering: Theory, applications, and new perspectives. Phys Chem Ch Ph.
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Pophale R, Deem MW, Cheeseman M (2011) A database of new zeolite-like materials. Phys Chem Ch Ph.
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Pophale R, Deem MW, Cheeseman M (2009) Computational discovery of new zeolite-like materials. J Phys Chem 113: 21353-21360.
