Dennis Bray (born 1939) 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 3 November 2006 he was awarded the Microsoft European Science Award for his work on chemotaxis of E. coli.
Mention in Popular Science Professor Franklin M. Harold writes "The theme [of a protein's shape and functionality being altered by interaction with its environment] comes with numerous variations, some of which are discussed in a thought-provoking article by Dennis Bray [author references Dr. Bray's 1995 article] that examines proteins as information-processing devices."
Books Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell (2009) , Essential Cell Biology (2003) (with Bruce Alberts, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter) , Cell Movements: From Molecules to Motility (2000) , 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) , Molecular Biology of the Cell (3rd ed, 1994) (with Bruce Alberts, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, James D. Watson) , Cell Movements (1992) , Molecular Biology of the Cell (2nd ed, 1989) (with Bruce Alberts, Keith Roberts, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff) , Molecular Biology of the Cell (1st ed, 1982) (with Bruce Alberts, Keith Roberts, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, James D Watson) ,
Main scientific publications Bray D (1970) "Surface movements during growth of single explanted neurons". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, Bray D (1973) "Model for Membrane Movements in the Neural Growth Cone". Nature, 244: 93 - 96 Bray D & White J G (1988) "Cortical flow in animal cells". Science, 239: 883-888 Bray D (1990) "Intracellular signalling as a parallel distributed process". Journal of Theoretical Biology, 143: 215-231 Bray D (1995) "Protein molecules as computational elements in living cells". Nature, 376: 307-312 Bray D, Levin M D & Morton-Firth C J (1998) "Receptor clustering as a cellular mechanism to control sensitivity". Nature, 393: 85-88
References
External links Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology Department for Dennis Bray at University of Cambridge Review Article version of Bray D (1995) Protein molecules as computational elements in living cells.