Dennis Bray Explained

Dennis Bray
Birth Date:	28 June 1939^[1]
Nationality:	British
Field:	computational biology, microbiology, neurobiology
Work Institutions:	University of Cambridge
Prizes:	Microsoft European Science Award (2007)

Dennis Bray (born 1939)^[2] 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 Microsoft European Science Award for his work on chemotaxis of E. coli.^{[3] [4]}

Books

• Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell (2009), ^[5]
• Essential Cell Biology (2003) (with Bruce Alberts, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Jonhson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter),
• Cell Movements: From Molecules to Motility (2000),
• Essential Cell Biology: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell (1997) (with Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter),
• Molecular Biology of the Cell (3rd ed, 1994) (with Bruce Alberts, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, James D. Watson),
• Cell Movements (1992),
• Molecular Biology of the Cell (2nd ed, 1989) (with Bruce Alberts, Keith Roberts, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff),
• Molecular Biology of the Cell (1st ed, 1982) (with Bruce Alberts, Keith Roberts, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, James D Watson),

Main scientific publications

• Bray D (1970) Surface movements during growth of single explanted neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA,
• Bray D (1973) Model for Membrane Movements in the Neural Growth Cone. Nature, 244: 93 - 96
• Bray D, White JG (1988) Cortical flow in animal cells. Science, 239: 883-888
• Bray D (1990) Intracellular signalling as a parallel distributed process. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 143: 215-231
• Bray D (1995) Protein molecules as computational elements in living cells. Nature, 376: 307-312
• Bray D, Levin MD, Morton-Firth CJ (1998) Receptor clustering as a cellular mechanism to control sensitivity. Nature, 393: 85-88

Mention in Popular Science

Professor Franklin M. Harold writes "The theme [of a protein's shape and functionality being altered by interaction with its environment] comes with numerous variations, some of which are discussed in a thought-provoking article by Dennis Bray [author references Dr. Bray's 1995 article] that examines proteins as information-processing devices."^[6]

External links

• Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology
• Department for Dennis Bray at University of Cambridge
• Review Article version of Bray D (1995) Protein molecules as computational elements in living cells.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bray, Dennis . Social Networks and Archival Content.
2. Web site: Dennis Bray . King's College, London.
3. Web site: Microsoft Research – Emerging Technology, Computer, and Software Research . research.microsoft.com . November 6, 2006.
4. News: Computer bug study wins top prize . news.bbc.co.uk . 3 November 2006. November 6, 2006.
5. Web site: Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell « Kurzweil.
6. Book: Harold, Franklin M. . Franklin M. Harold . The way of the cell: molecules, organisms, and the order of life . 2001 . Oxford University Press . New York . 0-19-513512-1 . 76 .