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Anatol M. Zhabotinsky


Ph.D., Institute of Biological Physics, Moscow, Russia
781-736-2531
zhabotinsky@brandeis.edu
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Research Interests

  • Study of chemical wave propagation and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems, which model, excitable biological and ecological systems and catalytic layers in the industrial reactors.
  • Mathematical modeling and computer simulation of synaptic plasticity and related nonlinear phenomena.

Selected Publications

1. Zhabotinsky, A.M., "Periodic liquid phase reactions," Proc. Ac. Sci. USSR 157,392 (1964).

2. Zaikin, A.N. and Zhabotinsky, A.M., "Concentration wave propagation in two-dimensional liquid-phase self-oscillating system," Nature 225, 535 (1970).

3. Zhabotinsky,A.M.,and Zaikin,A.N., "Autowave processes in a distributed chemical system," J. Theor. Biol. 40, 45 (1973).

4. Zhabotinsky, A. M., Eager, M. D., and Epstein, I. R., "Refraction and reflection of chemical waves," Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1526 (1993).

5. Zhabotinsky, A. M., Dolnik, M. and Epstein, I. R., "Pattern Formation Arising from Wave Instability in a Simple Reaction-Diffusion System," J. Chem. Phys.103, 10306 (1995).

6. Kurin-Csörgei, K., Zhabotinsky, A. M., Orbán, M. and Epstein, I. R., "The bromate-1,4- cyclohexanedione-ferroin gas-free oscillating reaction. I. Basic features and crossing wave patterns in a reaction-diffusion system without gel," J. Phys. Chem. 100, 5393 (1996).

7. Bugrim, A. E., Zhabotinsky, A. M. and Epstein, I. R., “Calcium waves in a model with a random spatially discrete distribution of Ca2+ release sites,” Biophysical J. 73, 2897 (1997).

8. Zhabotinsky, A. M., “Bistability in the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase- phosphatase system,” Biophysical J. 79, 2211 (2000).

9. Vanag, V. K., Yang L. F., Dolnik, M., Zhabotinsky, A. M., and Epstein, I. R., “Oscillatory cluster patterns in a homogeneous chemical system with global feedback.” Nature 406, 389 (2000).

10. Lisman, J. E. and Zhabotinsky, A. M., “A model of synaptic memory: A CaMKII/PP1 switch that potentiates transmission by organizing an AMPA receptor anchoring assembly.” Neuron 31, 191 (2001).

11. Berenstein, I., Yang L. F., Dolnik, M., Zhabotinsky, A. M., and Epstein, I. R., (2005). “Dynamic mechanism of photochemical induction of Turing superlattices in the chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction-diffusion system.” J. Phys. Chem. A 109, 5382 (2005).

12. Miller, P., Zhabotinsky, A. M., Lisman J. E., Wang, X. J., “The stability of a stochastic CaMKII switch: Dependence on the number of enzyme molecules and protein turnover,” Plos Biology 3, 705 (2005).