Anat Burger

Prof. Anat Burger is new to the department as of Fall 2019, moving from Boston, Massachusetts.  Dr. Burger’s research is at the intersection of physics, biology, mathematics, and computer science.  Her work specializes in modeling stochastic noise in biological systems, particularly in the transcriptional regulation of gene networks.

Dr. Burger received her undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her PhD from the University of California, San Diego.  Her Ph.D. work looked at the effects of non-functional transcription factor binding on the functioning of gene networks.  She was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University where she worked in collaboration with experimentalists to analyze and model biological experiments.  One project was to study the effects of aging on the germline stem cells of fly testes.  Another project used bioinformatics techniques to track transcriptional regulation over the course of the development of a worm embryo.  At a second post-doc at Harvard Medical School, in the field of computational radiation oncology, she worked on digital phantom models of lung tumor radiation treatments.

Dr. Burger has held positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics at Salem State University, Mount Holyoke College, and Simmons University.