I am a doctoral candidate in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University.
I work in the lab of Madhav Mani in applied/computational math broadly applied to biological problems, but I also have an extensive physics and economics background. My work has encompassed two main projects with two different experimental collaborators. The first, with the Gregor Group (Princeton) has focused on developing a mathematical model for understanding the underlying motion of tagged ms2 loci in the early Drosophila embryo. This work in method development has led to a paper that is in the submission process to PLOS Comp Bio, and is up on bioRxiv, and analysis of experimental data is forthcoming. My current project is with the Munro Group (UChicago), modeling pulsatile actomyosin dynamics in the early C. elegans embryo through an excitable reaction-diffusion-advection system.
Email: rebecca.menssen@u.northwestern.edu
Office: Technological Institute M410
My short resume is here, and my full CV can be found here..