Mark Byrne , Ph.D.,
University of Notre Dame

Mark Byrne Ph.D., is a theoretical physicist interested in understanding and predicting global properties of cell behavior utilizing the recent proliferation of qualitative and quantitative information in the biological sciences. Mark is currently working as part of our computational biology group on the development and implementation of analyses for interpreting high throughput mass spectrometry data in the context of quantifying changes in hundreds of cellular lipid species for a variety of cell types in response to varying external stimuli or internal manipulation. On the more theoretical side, the computational biology group is working on the construction of mathematical models which integrate proteomic and lipidomics data to understand “steady-state” lipid dynamics, and to further determine the variation induced by perturbations.