Research Interests:

Representative Publications:

“Effects of Mobility of Small Islands on Growth in Molecular-Beam Epitaxy”, I. Furman and O. Biham, Phys. Rev. B, 55:7917–7926 (1997).

“H2 Formation on Interstellar Grains in Different Physical Regimes”, O. Biham, I. Furman, N. Katz, V. Pirronello, and G. Vidali, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 296:869–872 (1998).

“Models for Adatom Diffusion on FCC(001) Metal Surfaces”, H. Mehl, I. Furman, O. Biham and M. Karimi, Phys. Rev. B, 60:2106–2116 (1999).

“Epitaxial Growth of Cu on Cu(001): Experiments and Simulations”, I. Furman, O. Biham, J.-K. Zuo, A.K. Swan and J.F. Wendelken, Phys. Rev. B, 62:R10649–R10652 (2000).

“Master Equation for Hydrogen Recombination on Grain Surfaces”, O. Biham, I. Furman, V. Pirronello, and G. Vidali, Astrophys. J., 553:595–603 (2001).

“Sequence-based linkage analysis”, I. Furman, M.J. Rieder, S. Da Ponte, D.P. Carrington, D.A. Nickerson, L. Kruglyak, K. Markianos, Am. J. Human Gen., 75:647–653 (2004).

“messenger RNA fluctuations and regulatory RNAs shape the dynamics of a negative feedback loop ”, M. Rodríguez Martínez, J. Soriano, T. Tlusty, Y. Pilpel, and I. Furman, Phys. Rev. E, 81:031924 (2010).

“Specialization versus adaptation: two strategies employed by cyanophages to enhance their translation efficiencies”, K. Limor-Waisberg, A. Carmi, A. Schertz, Y. Pilpel, and I. Furman, Nucleic Acid Research, 39:6016 – 6028 (2011).