Michael W Deem
Michael Deem is the John W. Cox Professor at Rice University. Deem works in the Bioengineering and Physics & Astronomy Departments. His work is in the areas of Michael W. Deem works in the area of evolution, immunology, physiology, and materials. He has brought tools from statistical physics to bear on problems in these areas. Deem has developed methods to quantify vaccine effectiveness and antigenic distance for influenza, methods to sculpt the immune system to mitigate immunodominance in dengue fever, a hierarchical approach to protein molecular evolution, elucidated how static and dynamic measures of human brain connectivity predict complementary aspects of human cognitive performance, and developed the widely-used DIFFAX and ZEFSA and OSDA design methods for zeolites.