I am a Professor in the departments of Mathematics and of
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UC Davis. I am a
mathematical biologist who specializes in the applications of
topological methods and computational tools to the study of DNA
packing, DNA-protein interactions, and DNA rearrangements.
September, 2015: Dorothy Wrinch Memorial Lecture in
Biomathematics, Four College Biomath Consortium: DNA
Unlinking in Bacterial Cells
2014
2014 Mohammed Dahleh Distinguished
Lectureship (UC Santa Barbara).This award has been
created to honor the memory, innovative spirit, and
contributions of Mohammed Dahleh to our scientific community
and to the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Shape of DNA - Numberphile The amazing knots, twists and turns inside our cells. This is Part One of DNA Topology featuring Professor Mariel Vazquez from UC Davis.
November 2, 2015:
How DNA unties its own knots - Numberphile This is Part Two of DNA Topology featuring Professor Mariel Vazquez from UC Davis.
April 23, 2015:
Knots & DNA - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Hear about how these knots present a “packing problem,” and the mathematical and computational tools used to tackle it.
January 27, 2015: Lab-to-lab video, M. Vazquez featured alongside her japanese collaborator
Plenary talk: DNA Unlinking in Bacterial Cells
Dorothy Wrinch Memorial Lecture in Biomathematics
Four College Biomath Consortium Center
for Women in Mathematics at Smith College
Northampton, MA, September 2015.
TangleSolve (paper)
is a Java applet which implements the tangle method for
site-specific recombination. TangleSolve offers an easy to use
graphical user interface for analyzing and vizualizing
site-specific recombination mechanisms.
