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I am currently working on a theoretical problem involving graph theory, number theory, and combinatorics. I am also investigating a certain partition identity involving triangular numbers, along with an intriguing open question known as the "Lonely Runner Problem." My broader mathematical interests include Mahler measure and Euclidean geometry.
My field of research is Comparative Feminist Philosophy. My current project is a manuscript entitled Ethics Embodied to be published with Lexington Books. In Ethics Embodied, I discuss the prospects for integrating aspects of Japanese Zen Buddhism, contemporary Japanese philosophy and western ethics through a feminist lens. More specifically, I propose an alternative orientation for thinking about selfhood and ethics that draws on my comparison of Western feminist and Japanese philosophy.
My research seeks to distinguish features of chemical structure that control how drug molecules interact with DNA. Molecules that become threaded through the helix, thereby distorting DNA shape, can inhibit further replication and are of particular interest. Students in my lab make ruthenium based molecules that intercalate between the base pairs inside the double helix of DNA. Exactly how the ruthenium molecules initially approach DNA, become inserted and eventually exist in equilibrium as a free and bound molecule is studied using synthesis and spectroscopic tools.
