Olga Dudko

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Olga Dudko
Ольга Дудко
Born
Ukraine
Alma mater University of Kharkiv
Scientific career
Institutions University of California, San Diego
National Institutes of Health
Tel Aviv University

Olga Dudko [lower-alpha 1] is a physicist who is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her research makes use of theoretical physics to understand complex biological problems. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.

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Early life and education

Dudko completed undergraduate and postgraduate research at the National University of Kharkiv, where she worked in condensed matter physics. [1] She moved to Tel Aviv University as a postdoctoral fellow, where she worked alongside Joseph Klafter on dynamic force spectroscopy. [2] Dudko eventually left Israel for the National Institutes of Health. [1]

Research and career

Dudko joined the University of California, San Diego in 2007. She uses physics-based approaches to understand biological systems. In partnership with Attila Szabo and Gerhard Hummer, Dudko devised the Dudko-Hummer-Szabo theory to describe the kinetic behaviour of macromolecules in dynamic force experiments. [3] She was awarded an National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Hellman Fellowship to investigate single molecule biophysics. [4] [5] By translating the physics developed to understand the phase transitions of polymers to biological systems, Dudko explained the organizational processes that take place within the nuclei of living cells. [6] She developed a theoretical description of synaptic transmission, [7] that showed that chemical synapses had similar behavior irrespective of their size or rate of neurotransmitter release. [8] [9]

Dudko became associate editor of Physical Review Letters in 2019. [10] In 2022, she was named a Simons Foundation Investigator, [11] and elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. [12] [13]

Selected publications

Notes

  1. ↑ Ukrainian: Ольга Дудко, romanized: Olha Dudko

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  1. 1 2 Read "Physics of Life" at NAP.edu. National Academies Press. 2022. doi:10.17226/26403. ISBN   978-0-309-27400-5. PMID   36622924. S2CID   126098054.
  2. ↑ Dudko, Olga K.; Filippov, Alexander E.; Klafter, Joseph; Urbakh, Michael (December 2004). "Following Single Molecules by Force Spectroscopy". Israel Journal of Chemistry. 44 (4): 363–372. doi:10.1560/tbv9-439h-6u1d-1bdx. ISSN   0021-2148.
  3. ↑ Dudko, Olga K.; Hummer, Gerhard; Szabo, Attila (2008-10-14). "Theory, analysis, and interpretation of single-molecule force spectroscopy experiments". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (41): 15755–15760. Bibcode:2008PNAS..10515755D. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806085105 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   2572921 . PMID   18852468.
  4. ↑ "UC San Diego | Professor Olga Dudko receives an NSF CAREER Award". physics.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  5. ↑ "2009 University of California Hellman Fellows - UC Berkeley" (PDF). 2009.
  6. ↑ "Applying the Goldilocks Principle to DNA Structure". today.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  7. ↑ Wang, Bin; Dudko, Olga K. (2021-12-31). "A theory of synaptic transmission". eLife. 10. doi: 10.7554/eLife.73585 . PMC   8776255 . PMID   34970965.
  8. ↑ "Bridging a Gap in the Theory of Synaptic Transmission". physicalsciences.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  9. ↑ Wang, Bin; Dudko, Olga K (2021-12-31). Behrens, Timothy E (ed.). "A theory of synaptic transmission". eLife. 10: e73585. doi: 10.7554/eLife.73585 . ISSN   2050-084X. PMC   8776255 . PMID   34970965.
  10. ↑ "Meet Our New RMP Associate Editor Olga Dudko". Reviews of Modern Physics. 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  11. ↑ "Olga Dudko Receives Prestigious Simons Investigator Award". today.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  12. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  13. ↑ "Theoretical Physicist Olga Dudko Named American Physical Society Fellow". today.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
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