Dennis Bray
Dennis Bray is an active emeritus professor at University of Cambridge. His group is also part of the Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology. After a first career in Neurobiology, working on cell growth and movement, Dennis Bray moved in Cambridge to develop computational models of cell signaling, in particular in relation to bacterial chemotaxis.
On 3 November 2006 he was awarded the Science Award">Science (journal)">Science Award for his work on chemotaxis of E. coli.
Mention in Popular Science
Professor Franklin M. Harold writes "The theme comes with numerous variations, some of which are discussed in a thought-provoking article by Dennis Bray that examines proteins as information-processing devices."Books
- Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell,
- Essential Cell Biology,
- Cell Movements: From Molecules to Motility,
- Essential Cell Biology: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell,
- Molecular Biology of the Cell,
- Cell Movements,
- Molecular Biology of the Cell,
- Molecular Biology of the Cell,
Main scientific publications
- Bray D Surface movements during growth of single explanted neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA,
- Bray D Model for Membrane Movements in the Neural Growth Cone. Nature, 244: 93 - 96
- Bray D, White JG Cortical flow in animal cells. Science, 239: 883-888
- Bray D Intracellular signalling as a parallel distributed process. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 143: 215-231
- Bray D Protein molecules as computational elements in living cells. Nature, 376: 307-312
- Bray D, Levin MD, Morton-Firth CJ Receptor clustering as a cellular mechanism to control sensitivity. Nature, 393: 85-88