People - Faculty - Professor: Frank L. Brown

Field(s): Theoretical Chemistry
Email: fbrown@chem.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893- 5494 Fax: (805) 893- 4120
Office: 4126 Chemistry
Selected Publications
Go to Research Group website
Bio: Dr. Brown received his B.S. in Chemistry and B.A. in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley
and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from MIT in 1998. He was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
at UC San Diego and a Yen Fellow at the University of Chicago before joining the UCSB
faculty in 2001. Dr. Brown is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) in 2005.


Current Research

Research in my group is entirely theoretical/computational in nature. Our interests lie at the interface between physical chemistry and biophysics and we use a variety of tools spanning the traditional fields of statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, elasticity theory and quantum mechanics in our research efforts. Recent work has focused on the dynamics and structure of biomembranes and the interpretation of
single molecule spectroscopy experiments.

Please see our group webpage for more details.

 

Selected Research Publications
Generating Function Methods in Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, F. L. H. Brown, Accts. Chem. Res., 39, 363-373 (2006).
A Consistent Model for Thermal Fluctuations and Protein Induced Deformations in Lipid Bilayers, G. Brannigan and F. L. H. Brown, Biophys. J., 90, 1501-1520 (2006).
Flexible Lipid Bilayers in Implicit Solvent, G. Brannigan, P. F. Philips and F. L. H. Brown, Phys. Rev. E, 72, 011915 (2005).
Brownian Dynamics in Fourier Space: Membrane Simulations Over Long Length and Time Scales, L. Lin and F. L. H. Brown, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256001 (2004).
Single-Molecule Photon Counting Statistics via Generalized Optical Bloch Equations, Y. Zheng and F. L. H. Brown, Phys. Rev. Lett., 90, art. no. 238305 (2003).


Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 9510
University of California
Santa Barbara CA 93106 - 9510
Department Phone: 805-893-5675
Department Fax: 805-893-4120