@paulg I'm curious as to your rationale for optimizing growth rate. In my field of study, systems biology, we often model microbial dynamics using optimization of growth rate. This approach often mimics nature well. I find it fascinating, albeit unsurprising, that it works here too.
Something you learn very quickly when covering biotech startups -- including successful ones that now treat cancers and diabetes and heart disease -- is how many are based on govt-funded academic research.
There is no private funding mechanism to replace that work.
Strong background in genomics and bioinformatics education and community engagement.
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The Spring 2023 admission application for the TAMU ChemE Ph.D. program is due on 10/1. We have multiple openings in the BioEngr focus, including synthetic and systems biology, metabolic engineering, natural product, microbial engineering, and biomechanics. Join us!
Please RT.
My chair is quite the writer-- his out-of-office email text:
"Hi,
I'm on vacation. Like real vacation. Like I threatened people that I wasn't taking my laptop vacation. So I'm pretty unlikely to respond before August 1st. Now if you really, really need something, you can try and
As a non-virologist, here are some things I have learned about covid that I would not have guessed before the pandemic. They are super counter-intuitive:
@DanielBolnick I still occasionally "torture" my students with Common Lisp. It is definitely my language of choice when my constraints allow me to choose.