Tom Chou

Ribosome recycling, diffusion, and mRNA loop formation in translational regulation.

Interplay of chemotaxis and chemokinesis mechanisms in bacterial dynamics.

Chiral molecule adsorption on helical polymers.

Water alignment, dipolar interactions, and multiple proton occupancy during water-wire proton transport.

Physical mechanisms of gas and perfluoron retinopexy and sub-retinal fluid displacement.

Physics of RecA-mediated homologous recognition.

Modeling the emergence of the 'hot zones': tuberculosis and the amplification dynamics of drug resistance.

Clustered bottlenecks in mRNA translation and protein synthesis.

Steady-state properties of a totally asymmetric exclusion process with periodic structure.

First passage times of driven DNA hairpin unzipping.

First passage and cooperativity of queuing kinetics.

Band gaps and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.

Stochastic entry of enveloped viruses: fusion versus endocytosis.

Multistage adsorption of diffusing macromolecules and viruses.

Dynamic boundaries in asymmetric exclusion processes.

Peeling and sliding in nucleosome repositioning.

Brownian ratchets driven by asymmetric nucleation of hydrolysis waves.

Degenerate ground-state lattices of membrane inclusions.

Membrane lipid segregation in endocytosis.

Exact steady-state velocity of ratchets driven by random sequential adsorption.

Charge-transport-mediated recruitment of DNA repair enzymes.

Mechanisms of receptor/coreceptor-mediated entry of enveloped viruses.

Elite suppressor-derived HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins exhibit reduced entry efficiency and kinetics.

Accelerated search kinetics mediated by redox reactions of DNA repair enzymes.

Enhancement of cargo processivity by cooperating molecular motors.

Enhancement of charged macromolecule capture by nanopores in a salt gradient.

A quantitative affinity-profiling system that reveals distinct CD4/CCR5 usage patterns among human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and simian immunodeficiency virus strains.

Optimal cytoplasmic transport in viral infections.

Models of dynamic extraction of lipid tethers from cell membranes.

Frequency-dependent chemolocation and chemotactic target selection.

A mathematical model of intercellular signaling during epithelial wound healing.

Diffusion-dependent mechanisms of receptor engagement and viral entry.

Coarsening and accelerated equilibration in mass-conserving heterogeneous nucleation.

Tracking monotonically advancing boundaries in image sequences using graph cuts and recursive kernel shape priors.

A mechanical model of retinal detachment.

Affinofile profiling: how efficiency of CD4/CCR5 usage impacts the biological and pathogenic phenotype of HIV.

First passage times in homogeneous nucleation and self-assembly.

Measurement of the optic disc vertical tilt angle with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and influencing factors.

Combinatoric analysis of heterogeneous stochastic self-assembly.

Recidivism and rehabilitation of criminal offenders: a carrot and stick evolutionary game.

Iterative graph cuts for image segmentation with a nonlinear statistical shape prior.

Influence of correction of ocular magnification on spectral-domain OCT retinal nerve fiber layer measurement variability and performance.

Distinct HIV-1 entry phenotypes are associated with transmission, subtype specificity, and resistance to broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Influence of the disc-fovea angle on limits of RNFL variability and glaucoma discrimination.

Fixation times in differentiation and evolution in the presence of bottlenecks, deserts, and oases.

First assembly times and equilibration in stochastic coagulation-fragmentation.

Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Bond Energies and Mobilities Using Path Integral Analysis.

Mechanisms of blood homeostasis: lineage tracking and a neutral model of cell populations in rhesus macaques.

Kinetic theory of age-structured stochastic birth-death processes.

Onset, timing, and exposure therapy of stress disorders: mechanistic insight from a mathematical model of oscillating neuroendocrine dynamics.

Quantifying the Sensitivity of HIV-1 Viral Entry to Receptor and Coreceptor Expression.

Swarming in viscous fluids: Three-dimensional patterns in swimmer- and force-induced flows.

A Hierarchical Kinetic Theory of Birth, Death and Fission in Age-Structured Interacting Populations.