Bob Palais currently serves as a Research Professor at the University of Utah in the Mathematics Department. Previously, Dr. Palais served as Chair of the Mathematics Department at Utah Valley University as well as an Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah. He received his B.S. from Harvard, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, both in Mathematics, and moved to Utah after postdoctoral positions at Berkeley and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU). . His interests include scientific computation, mathematical visualization, PDEs, and algorithms for pattern recognition, geometry and dynamics.

Dr. Palais has been collaborating with Carl Wittwer and other lab members on developing algorithms and software to maximize the effectiveness of high-resolution melting analysis ever since Carl's discovery of dyes that made these methods possible.

Recent Melting Manuscript Spotlight

Accurate diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome... (BMC Genomics)

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Pubmed Query Results

Mathematical algorithms for high-resolution DNA melting analysis (Methods in Enzymology)

Quantitative Heteroduplex Analysis (Clinical Chemistry)

Gene Discovery (PNAS)

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