Dennis Bray

Dr. Dennis Bray is an active emeritus professor at University of Cambridge. His group is also part of the Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology. After a first career in Neurobiology, working on cell growth and movement, Dennis Bray moved in Cambridge to develop computational models of cell signaling, in particular in relation to bacterial chemotaxis.

On November 3, 2006, he was awarded the Microsoft European Science Award for his work on chemotaxis of E. coli.

Books

 * Essential Cell Biology (2003) (with Bruce Alberts, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Jonhson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter) ISBN-10: 081533480X, ISBN-13: 978-0815334804
 * Cell Movements: From Molecules to Motility (2000) ISBN-10: 0815332823, ISBN-13: 978-0815332824
 * Essential Cell Biology: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell (1997) (with Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter) ISBN-10: 0815329717, ISBN-13: 978-0815329718
 * Molecular Biology of the Cell (1994) (with Bruce Alberts, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, James D. Watson) ISBN-10: 0815319274, ISBN-13: 978-0815319276
 * Cell Movements (1992) ISBN-10: 0815307179, ISBN-13: 978-0815307174
 * Molecular Biology of the Cell (1989) (with Bruce Alberts, Keith Roberts, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff) ISBN-10: 0824036956, ISBN-13: 9780824036959

Main scientific publications

 * Bray D (1970) Surface movements during growth of single explanted neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 65: 905
 * Bray D, Shite JG (1988) Cortical flow in animal cells. Science, 239: 883-888
 * Bray D (1995) Protein molecules as computational elements in living cells. Nature, 376: 307-312
 * Bray D, Levin MD, Morton-Firth CJ (1998) Receptor clustering as a cellular mechanism to control sensitivity. Nature, 393: 85-88