Joel R. Stiles, MD, PhD Director, Center for Quantitative Biological Simulation Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Associate Professor Mellon College of Science Carnegie Mellon University 300 South Craig, Rm 406 Pittsburgh, PA  15213 VOICE (412) 268-4786 FAX (412) 268-8200 email: stiles@psc.edu

Joel 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 received his B.A. (Human Biology, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1980) from the University of Kansas, Ph.D. in Physiology and M.D. from the University of Kansas School of Medicine (1990 and 1991), and thereafter 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.

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