{"id":179,"date":"2015-08-13T18:25:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2025-09-30T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:39:16","slug":"research-focus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our research group focuses on modeling transcriptional regulation in fruit flies (<em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>). This includes topics in mathematics such as reaction-diffusion equations, numerical solvers, sensitivity analysis and parameter estimation. We are also interested in many other areas that bridge the gap between mathematics, computer science and biology, including data analysis, image processing, evolutionary algorithms and bioinformatics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Information<br \/>\n<\/strong>Jackie Dresch<br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Mathematical Biology<br \/>\nDepartment of Biology<br \/>\nClark University<br \/>\nEmail: jdresch@clarku.edu<br \/>\nPhone: 508-793-7346<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Above image:<br \/>\n(left to right) \u2013 Daniel Zawacki, Henry Kuerbis, Giorgi Bakuradze, Vivian Young, Gavin Forbes, Jackie Dresch, Diego Borges-Rivera, and Mahima Gupta<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our research group focuses on modeling transcriptional regulation in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). This includes topics in mathematics such as reaction-diffusion equations, numerical solvers, sensitivity analysis and parameter estimation. We are also interested in many other areas that bridge the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/jdresch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}