Center for Quantiative Biological Simulation Microphysiology Gateway

MCell and DReAMM People: Joel Stiles

Joel Stiles, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Center for Quantitative Biological Simulation
Associate Professor, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Education
B.A., Human Biology, University of Kansas
Ph.D., Physiology; M.D., University of Kansas School of Medicine

Role at CQBS
MCell and DReAMM architecture and code development

Dr. Stiles is a computational physiologist with research interests in synaptic and cellular microphysiology. His work has helped create and distribute research and teaching software for spatially realistic simulations of cellular function, and has illustrated counter-intuitive structure-function relationships at the nerve-muscle synapse and in specific instances of neuromuscular disease. He is a principal co-author of MCell, a Monte Carlo simulator of cellular microphysiology, and is also the principal architect of DReAMM (Design, Render, and Animate MCell Models). He was a postdoctoral fellow and Neurobiology research faculty member in Cornell University's Department of Neurobiology and Behavior until he joined the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in 1999 and Carnegie Mellon University faculty in 2003. He also holds adjunct Associate Professorships in the Department of Biology at Carnegie Mellon University and the Departments of Neuroscience and Computational Biology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Return to People