View source for Biography:Sergey Bezrukov (biophysicist)

{{Short description|American biophysicist}}
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'''Sergey M. Bezrukov''' is a Russian born biophysicist notable for his work on ion channels and [[Stochastic resonance|stochastic resonance]].

==Education==

He received his MS in [[Engineering:Electronics|Electronics]] and Theoretical Physics from
Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University, 1973; and he obtained his PhD under 
Giliary Moiseevich Drabkin in [[Physics:Physics|Physics]] and [[Mathematics]] from 
Moscow State University, {{wipe|Russia}}, 1981.

==Career==
During 1981-87, he was a research scientist, Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics; in 1987-90 a senior research scientist, Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics; in 1990-92 he was a visiting research associate, [[Organization:University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland, College Park]] and special volunteer, [[Organization:National Institutes of Health|National Institutes of Health]], LBM, NIDDK; in 1992-98 he was visiting scientist, National Institutes of Health, LSB, DCRT and LPSB, NICHD; in 1998-02 he was an investigator, head of unit, National Institutes of Health, LPSB, NICHD. He took up his present position in 2002, as section chief in the Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

==Honors==
Bezrukov was elected Member of executive council of the Division of Biological Physics of the [[Organization:American Physical Society|American Physical Society]] in 2002.

==See also==
* Lipid membranes
* [[Noise-based logic]]
* SEPTIC bacterium detection/identification method
* [[Biology:Quantum Aspects of Life|''Quantum Aspects of Life'' (book)]]
* ''Stochastic Resonance'' (book)

==External links==
* {{MathGenealogy|id=113023}}
* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=113023 Bezrukov's math genealogy]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080518021717/http://smt.nichd.nih.gov/bezrukov.htm Bezrukov's homepage]
* [http://en.scientificcommons.org/sergey_m_bezrukov Bezrukov at Scientific Commons]


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