Dr. Chris Cox

Biographical Sketch

Chris Cox has been on the faculty of the University of Tennessee since 1991. Prior to that, he worked as a process engineer for Smith & Loveless, Inc., a manufacturer of wastewater pumping and treatment equipment located in Lenexa, KS. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Tennessee.

Education

PhD The Pennsylvania State University in Environmental Engineering, 1993
MS The University of Missouri, Columbia in Environmental Engineering, 1984
BS The University of Missouri, Columbia in Chemical Engineering, 1983

Research Areas

Bioenergy Production
Mathematical Modeling of Metabolic and Genetic Regulatory Systems
Modeling of Engineered Pollution Control and Remediation Systems

Research Sponsors

Particating researcher in the Bioenergy Science Center at Oak Ridge National Lab.

Selected Publications

M.L. Simpson, C.D. Cox, and G.S. Sayler, “Frequency Domain Analysis of Noise in Autoregulated Gene Circuits,” Proc. National Acad. Sci. USA, 100(8), 4551-4556, 2003.

C.D. Cox, G.D. Peterson, M. Allen, J.M. Lancaster, J.M. McCollum, D. Austin, L. Yan, G.S. Sayler and M.L. Simpson, “Analysis of Noise in Quorum Sensing,” Omics, 7(3), 317-334, 2003.

M.L. Simpson, C.D. Cox, G.D. Peterson, and G.S. Sayler “Engineering in the Biological Substrate: Information Processing in Genetic Circuits,” P. IEEE, 92(5) 848-863, 2004.

M.L. Simpson, C.D. Cox, and G.S. Sayler, “Frequency domain chemical Langevin analysis of stochasticity in gene transcriptional regulation,” J. Theor. Biol., 229(3): 383-394, 2004.

C.D. Cox, “Statistical Distributions of Uncertainty and Variability in Activated Sludge Model Parameters,” Water Environ. Res, 76 (6), 2004.

R.B. Robinson, C.D. Cox and K. Odom, “Identifying Outliers in Correlated Water Quality Data,” J. Environ. Engr., 131 (4), 651-657, 2005.

D. W. Austin, M. S. Allen, J. M. McCollum, R. D. Dar, J. R. Wilgus, G. S. Sayler, N. F. Samatova, C. D. Cox, and M. L. Simpson, “Gene Network Shaping of Inherent Noise Spectra,” Nature 439 (7076), 2006.

J.M. McCollum, G.D. Peterson, C.D. Cox, M. L. Simpson, N. F. Samatova , “The Sorting Direct Method for stochastic simulation of biochemical systems with varying reaction execution behavior”, Journal of Computational Biology and Chemistry, 30(1) 39-49, 2006.

C.D. Cox, J.M. McCollum, D.W. Austin, M.S. Allen, R.D. Dar, and M.L. Simpson, “Frequency domain analysis of noise in simple gene circuits,” Chaos, 16(2), Article # 026102, 2006

L. Yan, M.S. Allen, M.L. Simpson, G.S. Sayler, and C.D. Cox, “Direct quantification of N-(3-oxo-hexanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone in culture supernatant using a whole-cell bioreporter,” Microbial Methods 68, 40-45 2007.

Professional Service

Environmental Engineering Graduate Program Coordinator
Chair of Curriculum and Instruction Committee