John Harer, Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	207 Physics
Office Phone:	(919) 660-2845
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• CBB 210S.01, COMP BIO SEMINAR

  French Sci 4233, M 10:20 AM-12:00 PM

Education:

PhD	University of California, Berkeley	1979
BS	Haverford College	1974

Specialties:

Topology
Geometry
Applied Math

Research Interests: Computational Topology, Computational Biology, Algorithms

Current projects: Systems Biology, Computational Topology, Geometric Image Analysis

Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in shape recognition, image segmentation, plant root architecture, biological networks and gene expression.

Areas of Interest:

Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Algorithms

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Michael Jenista  
• Aubrey HB  

Postdocs Mentored

• Yuriy Mileyko (2005 - 2011)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer, Computational Topology, An Introduction (January 13, 2010), American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-4925-5 (http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=mbk-69.)  [abs]
2. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Joshua S. Weitz, Olga Symonova,Yuriy Mileyko, Yueling Hao, Heather Belcher, John Harer, and Philip N. Benfey, Imaging and Analysis Platform for Automatic Phenotyping and Trait Ranking of Plant Root Systems, Plant Physiology (Submitted, 2009)  [abs]
3. T. Fink, S. Ahnert, R. Bar-On, J. Harer, Exact dynamics of Boolean networks with connectivity one, PRL (Submitted, 2009)  [abs]
4. D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer., Extending persistence using Poincare and Lefschetz duality, Found. Comput. Math., vol. p (2009), pp. 79-103, Erratum 133-134.  [abs]
5. H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer, The persistent Morse complex segmentation of a 3-manifold., in 3D Physiological Human Workshop, 2009, Lecture Notes Comp. Sci., edited by N. Magnenat-Thalmann, vol. 5903 (2009), pp. 36-50, Springer-Verlag, Berlin

Recent Grant Support

• GEPR: Genome-wide analysis of root traits, National Science Foundation, NSF-DBI-0820624, 2008/09-2012/08.      
• Duke Center for Systems Biology, NIH, 2007/07-2012/06.      
• Data Acquisition, Processing and Modeling of Morphogenesis in 4D, NSF, 0714796, 2006/07-2012/06.      
• FunBio, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 2009/10-2010/10.      
• Doctoral Program in Management and Analysis of Large Data Acquired from Sensors, Department of Education, P200A070505, 2007/08-2010/08.      
• Fundamentals of Biology, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 2008/07-2009/07.      
• Topological Methods for the Analysis of High-dimensional Data Sets and 3D Object Recognition, DARPA, 2005/01-2008/12.      
• TRPGR Genomic Approaches to Identify Genes for Root System Architecture Traits, National Science Foundation, DBI-0606873, 2006/08-2008/07.      
• STTR Phase I: Representation and Visualization of Plant Genotypic, Phenotypic,and Environmental Relationships, NSF IIP, 0637869, 2007/01-2007/12.      
• Representation and Visualization of Plant Genotypic, Phenotypic and Environmental Relationships, Phenotype Screening Corporation, 2007/01-2007/10.