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Nataša Jonoska
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Dr. Jonoska is a Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of South Florida in Tampa Florida. Her research interests are in theoretical and computational models of molecular self-assembly and molecular biology. Her focus is on how biology and other natural processes perform computation, and how this biomolecular information processing influences processes in biology, in particular DNA recombinant processes, RNA-DNA interactions, and DNA self-assembly. Considering that the biomolecules assume three dimensional conformations in order to achieve their functionality, the structure and the shape may be the essence in the biological information processing, thus Dr. Jonoska uses discrete and topological mathematical models, and formal computing models such as cellular or other finite types of automata, as well as topological graph theory to describe molecular DNA self-assembly and RNA guided DNA recombination.