Oleg Igoshin, Ph.D.

Professor of Bioengineering

oleg.igoshin@rice.edu

Oleg Igoshin specializes in computational systems biology with emphasis on dynamical properties and evolutionary design principles of biochemical networks, pattern formation in bacterial biofilms, and genetic networks in bacterial and stem cell development. Research in Igoshin’s Cellular Systems Dynamics Laboratory uses methods of nonlinear dynamics, biophysics, statistics and bioinformatics to expose emergent properties of biological systems on intercellular and intracellular scales. Igoshin’s computational and theoretical methods complement the experimental approaches of collaborators with leading academic and medical researchers across the U.S., Europe and Australia. Igoshin joined Rice in 2007. From 2012 to present, he has been instrumental in establishing and growing the doctoral program in Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB). He has also conducted research as a senior investigator with Rice’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics since 2013. Igoshin is an established leader in systems biology modeling’s research with over 50 journal publications in his name. He was awarded an NSF CAREER award (2009) and a John S. Dunn Research Foundation award (2009).