There's plenty of room at the bottom - Richard Feynman
My research involves understanding biomolecular computation using a synthetic approach. Specifically, we are investigating how to engineer a system of biomolecules to process information and carry out specific tasks. The notion of algorithms is central to such a question. But my research is not limited to simply applying algorithmic concepts to synthetic biology but also implementing them using real biomolecules.
Recent Publications
Urmi Majumder and John H. Reif, A Framework for Designing Novel Magnetic Tiles Capable of Complex Self-Assemblies, final version in LNCS 5204, pgs:0129-0145, 2008.
John H. Reif and Urmi Majumder, Isothermal Reactivating Whiplash PCR for Locally Programmable Molecular Computation, preprintin Proceedings of Fourteenth International Meeting on DNA Based Computers (DNA14), Prague, Czech Republic, June 1-5 2008, extended abstract in Proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience:
Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices, April 2008, submitted for journal publication.
Urmi Majumder, Probabilistic Models for Damage and Self-repair in DNA Self-Assembly, full paper Proceedings of NSTI Nanotech, Boston, June 2008, submitted for journal publication.
Urmi Majumder, Sudheer Sahu and John H. Reif, Stochastic Analysis of Reversible Assembly, full paper in the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Volume 5, Number 7, pp. 1289-1305, July 2008, extended abstract in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices, 154-156, April 2007.
Urmi Majumder, Thomas H LaBean, and John H Reif, Activatable Tiles for
Compact, Robust Programmable Assembly and other Applications,
preprintin Proceedings of Thirteenth International Meeting on DNA Computing (DNA
13), Memphis, Tennessee, June 4-8, 2007, final version in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4848, pg: edited by Max Garzon and Hao
Yan, Springer Verlag, New York, 2008, extended abstract in
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience:
Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices, 60-64, April 2007.
Urmi Majumder, Sudheer Sahu, Thomas H. LaBean and John H. Reif, Design and Simulation of Self-Repairing DNA Lattices,
preprintin Proceeding of Twelfth International Meeting on DNA Based Computers (DNA12), Seoul, Korea, June 5-9, 2006,final version in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4287, pgs: 195-214, edited by Chengde Mao and Takashi Yokomori, Springer-Verlag, New York, extended abstractin Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices, 187-191, April 2006.
