Pranay Goel

Assistant Professor (Mathematics and Biology)
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
First floor, Central Tower, Sai Trinity Building,
Garware Circle, Sutarwadi, Pashan,
Pune, Maharashtra 411021, India.

Phone:+91-20-25908083
email: pgoel@iiserpune.ac.in

 

Research Interests:

Mathematical biology:

  • Theoretical neuroscience,
  • Computational cellular and cardiac physiology,
  • Diabetes.

Nonlinear dynamical systems. Multiscale modeling.

 

Education and previous work experience:

  • B.Tech. in Engineering Physics (minor in Electrical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. July 1998.
  • M.S. and Ph.D., Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh. Advisor: Professor G. Bard Ermentrout. August 2003.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), The Ohio State University. September 2003 - August 2006.
  • Research Fellow, Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH). September 2006 - December 2008
  • Assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India. Feb 2009 - present

 

Selected Publications:

  1. Pranay Goel and Arthur Sherman, The Geometry of Bursting in the Dual Oscillator Model of Pancreatic beta-cells, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS), (2009), 8(4), 1664-1693.
  2. Pranay Goel, Arthur Sherman, and Avner Friedman, Multiscale Modeling of Electrical and Intracellular activity in the Pancreas: The Islet Tridomain Equations, SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, (2009), 7(4), 1609-1642.
  3. Min Zhang, Bernard Fendler, Bradford E. Peercy, Pranay Goel, Richard Bertram, Arthur Sherman, Leslie Satin, Long Lasting Synchronization of Calcium Oscillations by Cholinergic Stimulation in Isolated Pancreatic Islets, Biophysical Journal, (2008), 95(10), 4676-4688.
  4. Erin R. Higgins, Pranay Goel, Jose L. Puglisi, J. L., Donald M. Bers, Mark Cannell, and James Sneyd , Modeling Calcium Microdomains using Homogenisation, Journal of Theoretical Biology, (2007), 247(4), 623-44.
  5. Pranay Goel, James Sneyd, and Avner Friedman, Homogenization of the Cell Cytoplasm: The Calcium Bidomain Equations, SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, (2006), 5(4), 1045-1062.
  6. Goel, P. and Gelperin, A., A neuronal network for the logic of Limax learning, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, (2006), 21(3):259-70.
  7. P. Goel and B. Ermentrout, Synchrony, stability, and firing patterns in pulse-coupled oscillators, Physica D 163 (2002), no. 3-4, 191-216.

 

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