Breakfast at the Barracks - Season 2, Episode 23
Desmond Lun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology
Desmond Lun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Rutgers University. Prior to his present position, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and Director of the Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre at the University of South Australia. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Computational Biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a Research Fellow in Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He received bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2001, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2002 and 2006, respectively.
His research interests are in synthetic biology, systems biology, biological signal processing, and network science. He is co-author, with Tracey Ho, of Network Coding: An Introduction(Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Lun is researching how to alter the genetic makeup of E. coli to produce biodiesel fuel derived from fatty acids. Creating renewable energy by making fuels, like making ethanol out of corn, has been a common practice in trying to achieve sustainability. Lun is collaborating with researchers from Harvard University on his E. coli project. He teaches computational and integrative biology and biological networks at the Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Important Links and References:
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/09/rutgers2013camden-pr-20100902
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~dslun/biography.html
Victoria Chase
Clinical Associate Professor
School of Law
Victoria Chase teaches in the Domestic Violence Clinic and supervises the Domestic Violence Project. She also serves as Department Chair for Clinical Programs, and has taught courses in Disability Law and Professional Responsibility. Before joining the Rutgers faculty, Victoria was Executive Director of the Legal Clinic for the Disabled, a public interest nonprofit law firm providing legal services to people with disabilities. Victoria’s diverse employment history includes stints as a commercial litigator with Manko, Gold, Katcher and Fox, LLP and as an Honors Attorney with the U.S. Department of Transportation. She is experienced in disability law, transportation law, environmental law and toxic torts, family law and protection from abuse, public benefits, special education, and consumer protection. She graduated cum laude from Rutgers School of Law-Camden in 1998. As a student, she served as Director of the Community Dispute Resolution Committee, a volunteer organization providing mediation services to the Camden County courts. Prior to attending law school, Victoria attended graduate courses in Religion at Florida State University where she was a teaching assistant for several undergraduate religion courses. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary in 1991. In 2004, the Philadelphia Business Journal, recognized her as one of the region’s top young professionals.
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