Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of Physics

Physics

Expertise

Theoretical physics and physical biology.

Awards and Honors

Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2007)

HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Award: Quantitative biology: a new curriculum to link the physical and biomedical sciences (2006 - 2008)

Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation (2002)

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2000 - 2004)

Excellence in Teaching Award, Princeton University (1998 - 1999)

Third prize, XVI International Physics Olympiad (1985)

Courses Taught

FYS	11a	Nature's Nanotechnology
FYS	26b	Maps of Hidden Worlds: From the Cosmos to the Human Genome
PHYS	15b	Advanced Introductory Physics II
PHYS	105a	Biological Physics
PHYS	162b	Quantum Mechanics II
PHYS	163a	Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics

Scholarship

Garcia HG, Sanchez A, Boedicker JQ, Osborne M, Gelles J, Kondev J, Phillips R. "Operator sequence alters gene expression independently of transcription factor occupancy in bacteria.." Cell Reports 2. 1 (2012): 150-161.

Phillips, Robert, Kondev, Jane, Theriot, Julie, and Garcia, Hernan. Physical Biology of the Cell. 2nd Edition ed. New York: Garland Science, 2012.

Sanchez A, Osborne ML, Friedman LJ, Kondev J, Gelles J. "Mechanism of transcriptional repression at a bacterial promoter by analysis of single molecules." EMBO J. 30. 19 (2012): 3940-6.

Coïc E, Martin J, Ryu T, Tay SY, Kondev J, Haber JE. "Dynamics of homology searching during gene conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed by donor competition.." Genetics 189. 4 (2011): 1225-33.

Garcia HG, Kondev J, Orme N, Theriot JA, Phillips R.. "Thermodynamics of biological processes." Methods in Enzymology 492. (2011): 27-59.

Reeves, D., Cheveralls, K., Kondev, J.. "Regulation of biochemical reaction rates by flexible tethers." Physical Review E 84. (2011): 021914.

Sanchez A, Garcia HG, Jones D, Phillips R, Kondev J. "Effect of Promoter Architecture on the Cell-to-Cell Variability in Gene Expression." PLoS Computational Biology 7. 3 (2011): e1001100.

Wiggins PA, Cheveralls KC, Martin JS, Lintner R, and Kondev J. "Strong intranucleoid interactions organize the Escherichia coli chromosome into a nucleoid filament." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107. (2010): 4991.

Schmit JD, Kamber E, and Kondev J. "Lattice Model of Diffusion-Limited Bimolecular Chemical Reactions in Confined Environments." Physical Review Letters 102. (2009): 218302.

Rob Phillips, Jané Kondev, and Julie Theriot. Physical Biology of the Cell. Garland Science, 2008.

Sanchez, Alvaro and Kondev, Jané. "Transcriptional control of noise in gene expression." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105. 13 (2008): 5081.

Bintu Lacramioara, Nicolas E. Buchler, Hernan G. Garcia, Ulrich Gerland, Terrence Hwa, Jane Kondev and Rob Phillips. "Transcriptional regulation by the numbers: applications." Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 15. (2005): 125-135.