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Peter Jung

Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
phone: 740-593-1720
fax: 740-593-0433
office: Clippinger 252B
jung@helios.phy.ohiou.edu

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Personal web page:  http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/people/faculty/jung.html

Research: (see personal web page for details)

1)  Stochastic Modeling of Intra- and Inter-cellular Ca2+ Signaling and Neural-Glial Interactions (Jian-Wei Shuai, Suhita Nadkarni and Peter Jung)

2)  Stimulus-Induced Synchrony in Retina and Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (Muhammod Afghan, P.Jung and Mike Rowe)

3)  Clustered Ion Channels in the Axonal Membrane: Synchronization and Propagation (Shegyou Zeng and Peter Jung)

4)  Modeling Slow Axonal Transport (Tony Brown (OSU) and Peter Jung)

Education

1983: Diploma in Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm, Germany

1985 Doctorate in Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm, Germany

1992: Habilitation, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Germany

Represenative Publications

  • P. Jung, Periodically Modulated Stochastic Processes, Phys. Rep. 234, 175 (1993).

  • P. Jung and G. Mayer-Kress, Noise Controlled Spiral Growth in Excitable Media, CHAOS 5, 458 (1995).

  • P. Jung and K. Wiesenfeld, Too Quiet for a Whisper, Nature, January, 23, 1997.

  • P. Jung, A. Cornell-Bell, K. Madden and F. Moss, Noise Induced Spiral Waves in Astrocyte Syncytia Show Evidence of Self-Organized Criticality, J. Neurophysiol. 79,1098 (1998)

  • P. Jung, A.H. Cornell-Bell, F.Moss, K. Sadar, J. Wang and K. Showalter, Noise Sustained Waves in Subexcitable Media: From Chemical Waves to Brain Waves, CHAOS, 8, 567 (1998).

  • Y. Zhou, and P. Jung, Noise and Complexity in Three Dimensional Excitable Media, Europhys. Lett. 49, 695 - 701 (2000).

  • P. Jung, A. Cornell-Bell, M. Dreher, T. deGrauw and R. Strawsburg, Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Calcium Waves in healthy and Pathological Astrocyte Syncytia, in Handbook of Biological Physics, Vol4, F. Moss and S. Gielen eds., 323, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2001). 

  • J.W.Shuai and P.Jung, Stochastic properties of Ca2+ release of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor clusters, Biophysical Journal 83: (1) 87-97, 2002.

  • J.W.Shuai and P.Jung, Optimal intracellular calcium signaling, Phys. Rev. Lett, 88: (6) art. no.-068102 FEB 11 2002 

  • Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease, John Milton and P.Jung, eds, Springer Verlag, Biological and Medical Physics series, December 2002

  • J.W.Shuai and P.Jung, Optimal Ion Channel Clustering for Intracellular Calcium Signaling, PNAS, 100, 506-510, 2003.




 

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