PIs Jesus Izaguirre is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. His current research is on efficient methods in chemistry and biology, particularly molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods. He is also interested in the portable implementation of high performance software for scientfic computing. He received a Ph.D. in computer science and computational science and engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mark Alber is a professor of mathematics, concurrent professor of physics, and the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Biocomplexity (ICSB) at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. His current research interests include methods of nonlinear dynamical systems and statistical mechanics with applications in biology. Alber hs a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. James A. Glazier is professor of Physics, adjunct professor of Informatics and director of the Biocomplexity Institute at Indiana University. He serves on the scientific advisory board of Reify Corporation, a medical devices company and on the editorial board of the journal Nonlinearity. He has also held visiting positions in biocomplexity at the University of Grenoble and Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan and was the founding director of the Biocomplexity Center at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include experimental and computational developmental biology and the physics of complex pattern formation and of foams. He holds a PhD and MA in physics from the University of Chicago and a BA, magna cum laude, in physics and mathematics from Harvard. Stuart A. Newman is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York. He has contributed to several scientific fields including biophysical chemistry, developmental biology, and evolutionary theory. His current resesarch interests include the mechanisms of vertebrate limb development, the dynamics of collagen assembly, and the evolution of morphogenesis. He received an A.B. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago. George Hentschel is a professor of physics at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His current research interests are in the areas of nonlinear and biological physics. Hentschel has a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from the University of Cambridge. Gabor Forgacs Gilberto Thomas PostDocs Rajiv Chaturvedi is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. His current research interests include computational biology and software engineering. He has been working on models for biological phenomena occuring a multiple scales, and their integreation. Chaturvedi has a Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. Tilmann Glimm is a postdoctoral research associate at the Emory University physics department, Atlanta, Georgia, where he is working on the mathematical modeling of limb development and mesenchymal cell condensation. In general, his research interest is the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations. He has studied at TU Berlin and Emory University and has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Emory. Nan Chen Maciej Swat, Indiana University Ariel Balter, Indiana University Graduate Students Trevor Cickovski is in his fourth year of graduate study in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, directed by Dr. Izaguirre. His current research interests include domain-specific language development, stochastic simulations of biocomplexity and software engineering. Cickovski has an M.S. in computer science, from the University of Notre Dame. Chengbang Huang is a fifth year student in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, directed by Dr. Izaguirre. His current research interest is to use a multi-model framework to simulate avian limb growth. Huang has a Ph.D in computer science from the University of Notre Dame. Undergraduate Students Dustin VonHandorf CompuCell Publications A Framework for Three-Dimensional Simulation of Morphogenesis (PDF), T. Cickovski, C. Huang, R. Chaturvedi, T. Glimm, H.G.E. Hentschel, M. Alber, J.A. Glazier, S.A. Newman, J.A. Izaguirre, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 273-288, 2005. CompuCell: A Multi-Model Framework for Simulations of Morphogenesis (PDF), J.A. Izaguirre, R. Chaturvedi, C. Huang, T. Cickovski, J. Coffland, G. Thomas, G. Forgacs, M. Alber, S.A. Newman, and J.A. Glazier, Bioinformatics, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 1129-1137, 2004.