• Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1996
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM, 1996-2000
• Limited-term Technical Staff Member, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 2000-2004
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2003-present
• Technical Staff Member, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 2004-present
• Acting Deputy Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 2006-2007

Research Interests:

• Signal transduction in the immune system
• Biophysics of ligand-receptor binding
• Design principles of bacterial gene regulation
• Metabolomics and metabolic networks in bacteria

Selected Recent Publications:

1. M.L. Blinov, J.R. Faeder, B. Goldestein and W.S. Hlavacek, BioNetGen: software for rule-based modeling of signal transduction based on the interactions of molecular domains., Bioinformatics 20, 3289-3291 (2004).
2. B. Goldstein, J.R. Faeder and W.S. Hlavacek, Mathematical and computational models of immune-receptor signaling., Nat. Rev. Immunol. 4, 445-456 (2004).
3. M.E. Wall, W.S. Hlavacek and M.A. Savageau, Design of gene circuts: lessons from bacteria., Nat. Rev. Genet. 5, 34-42 (2004).
4. W.S. Hlavacek, J.R. Faeder, M.L. Blinov, A.S. Perelson and B. Goldstein, The complexity of complexes in signal transduction., Biotechnol. Bioeng. 84, 783-794 (2003).