{"id":2455,"date":"2020-07-08T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T17:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/?page_id=2455"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:08:11","slug":"leif-zinnbrooks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/faculty-staff\/leif-zinnbrooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Leif Zinn-Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leif Zinn-Brooks<\/strong>, <strong>PhD<\/strong>, specializes in mathematical biology. Zinn-Brooks&#8217; PhD thesis focused on modeling the development of the lateral line (a sensory system akin to the human auditory system) in zebrafish. The lateral line is established in a zebrafish embryo when a collective of cells migrates from head to tail, depositing smaller cell clusters along its journey. These clusters later become the sensory organs that make up the lateral line. During a postdoc at UCLA, he worked on modeling circadian rhythms in multinucleate cells, motivated by the fungus Neurospora crassa, which is able to maintain a robust circadian rhythm across many nuclei at very low mRNA transcription levels. He also worked with an undergraduate student on simulating rolling paths of ball-rolling dung beetles.<\/p>\n<p>Zinn-Brooks particularly enjoys teaching mathematical modeling courses, where he introduces students to the myriad of ways that mathematics can be used to study biological problems. He was the recipient of a UCLA departmental teaching award for the 2019-20 academic year. Recently, at Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna College, Zinn-Brooks has started teaching Intro to Statistics courses. In summer 2023, he developed a new statistics course: Data, Probability and Statistics for Engineers. This course debuted in Fall 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>Further Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/06\/LZB_CV_Jun2023.pdf\">Leif Zinn Brooks&#8217; CV (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leif Zinn-Brooks, PhD, specializes in mathematical biology. Zinn-Brooks&#8217; PhD thesis focused on modeling the development of the lateral line (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4203,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2455","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2455\/revisions\/5363"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}