Lila Kari

Background

Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

Theory of computation: DNA computing
Discrete mathematics in relation to computer science
Biological Computation: How does biology do information technology?
Biocomputing Laboratory and Current Research Projects
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AVAILABLE

Awards

Florence Bucke Science Prize 2002-2003
Canada Research Chair in Biocomputing 2002-2007
Faculty of Science Award of Excellence for
Exceptional Performance in Undergraduate Teaching, 2000
Nevanlinna Prize 1991 for the best mathematics Ph.D. thesis in Finland

Publications and other contributions to research

Publications
Lectures
Conference committees
Journal editorships
Science's Next Wave interview. (My copy of the article)
Graduate students
Mark Daley, Ph.D. student
Elena Losseva, Ph.D. student
Geoff Wozniak, M.Sc student
Jeremy Newton-Smith, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Chenghua Shi, M.Sc. student, 2001, JAVA visualisation of DNA computing bio-operations.
Rob Kitto, M.Sc. student, 2000, Coding and complexity in DNA computing.

How do cells and nature "compute"?

Computational power of gene rearrangement (@AMS Press) .
Reversible molecular computation in ciliates (@Springer Verlag) .

DNA computing

DNA8, Eighth International Meeting on DNA-Based Computers
Some DNA Computing Web resources
Basic molecular biology notions
Bio-operations (lab-techniques) used in biomolecular computation
Circular insertions/deletions with applications to biomolecular computation (@IEEE CS Press)
DNA computing: arrival of biological mathematics (@Springer Verlag)
Fig.1 , Fig.2 , Fig.3 , Fig.4 , Fig.5 , Fig.6 , Fig.7
DNA computing: arrival of biological mathematics: ps file with figures (@ Springer Verlag)
Contextual insertion/deletions and computability (@Academic Press)
Codes, involutions and DNA encoding
Coding properties of DNA languages

Teaching

My views on teaching
Student teaching evaluations
Applied logic for Computer Science, Winter 2002
Unconventional computing: DNA computing, CS 881b, Winter 2001

What else I enjoy

Nature
Dancing
Literature, poetry, philosophy, psychology and arts
Music, classical and otherwise