DANIEL COX

Title: Professor
Co-director:Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
Degree: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1985
Research and pedagogical interests:
- Theoretical modelling of aggregation processes in biology (especially amyloid diseases--Mad Cow and Alzheimer's).
- Electrical Properties of DNA
- Environmental Issues and Science
Contact Information:
- Phone: (530)752-1789
- Address: Department of Physics, University of California, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616
- Fax: (530)752-4717
- Email: cox@physics.ucdavis.edu
NOTE: The background image is a model for a mammalian prion fibril embedded in 30 angstrom resolution density maps from the Saibil/Collinge labs in the UK. This work is taken from the dissertation of Dr. Kay Kunes.
Currently, besides myself, my group consists of Dr. Cynthia Trevisan, Dr. Kay Kunes, , Ms. Sunny Dai, , Mr. Youval Dar, , and Ms. Jamie Romnes, and I collaborate extensively with Prof. Rajiv Singh and his students . Mr. Robert Hayre, and Mr. Ryan Applegate, , Dr. David Mobley graduated in June, 2004 and moved to a postdoctoral position at UCSF. Dr. Jong-chin Lin and Dr. Jianping Pan graduated in the summer of 2007 and Dr. Lin is a postdoc in Prof. Dev Thirumalai's group at the University of Maryland, while Dr. Pan is embarking on a career in finance.
CLASSES
Spring 2007: Engineering and Physics 160
Winter 2008: Physics 250: Biological Physics through the filter of the prion problem
Spring 2008: Physics 9HC-Waves, Classical and Quantum

GROUP
Recently departed group members include Dr. Monte Labute (who has moved to a staff position at Archimedes Health Care Modeling), Dr. Robert Endres who has joined the faculty of Imperial College London this fall as a lecturer, Dr. Arnd Huebsch who is a financial consultant in Germany, Dr. Rahul Kulkarni (who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Virginia Polytechnic University), Dr. David Mobley, a postdoctoral researcher in pharmaceutical chemistry at UC San Francisco, Dr. Jong-Chin Lin, a postdoctoral researcher in biological physics at the University of Maryland, Dr. Jianping Pan, who has moved into the finance world, and Dr. Kay Kunes, a postdoc in our group at UC Davis.
Information on former students
Information on past postdoctoral research associates
Prof. Cox is involved in the campus initiative on Nanoparticles in the Environment, Agriculture, and Technology, and a member of the Graduate Group in Biophysics.
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
- Publication List (pdf)
- My review article with A. Zawadowski, ``Exotic Kondo effects in metals...'' (Adv. Phys. 47, 599 (1998)) is available as a book from Taylor and Francis also (look here).
- Here you can find some recent notes from three lectures I gave on ``Quantum Impurity Theory'' at the 2003 Boulder Condensed Matter Physics summer school.
- Click here to look at abstracts of some recent papers (source files and postscript available from the abstract).
  
  Maintained by D.L. Cox; last update July 2008