Craig Benham
Professor
cjbenham@ucdavis.edu

Biomedical Engineering (Grad)

Office
2251 Academic Surge
(530) 754-9647



 
Degrees:
1972 PhD Princeton University Mathematics
1971 MA Princeton University Mathematics
1968 BA Swarthmore College Mathematics
Research Interests:
structural transitions in stressed DNA molecules
This research group has developed statistical mechanical methods to computationally analyze the occurrence of structural transitions in stressed DNA molecules.
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Biophysics  
Genetics  
Publications:
  • Hatfield GW and CJ Benham. 2002. DNA topology-mediated control of global gene expression in Escherichia coli. Annual Review of Genetics. :in press
  • Benham CJ, Savitt A and WR Bauer. 2002. Extrusion of an imperfect palindrome to a cruciform in superhelical DNA: complete determination of energetics based upon a statistical mechanical model. Journal of Molecular Biology. 316:563-580
  • Mielke C, Christensen M, Westergaard O, Bode J, Benham CJ and M Breindl. 2002. Multiple Collagen I Gene Regulatory Elements Have Sites of Stress-Induced DNA Duplex Destabilization and Nuclear Scaffold/Matrix Association Potential. Journal of Cellular Bioc
Teaching Interests:
Courses in mathematical and computational biology taught includes: Undergraduate: Topics in applied mathematics Differential equations Discrete mathematics Mathematical biology Numeric