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My research is on using engineering methodologies for modeling biochemical pathways
Well, basically if you look at a plant system as any other system
for example I can describe a rocket or
a remote-controlled car
or any other type of electrical or mechanical system using math.
In some cases simplistic math, in some cases very complicated math but it's all still math nonetheless
and be able to actually create control algorithms to automatically control where these things go.
The reason that we can do that is because we understand all of the
physics that's associated with a particular object
We understand, you know, how much it weighs, the size,
you know, how must thrust we put into the mechanisms to make it go
and we can put all of that into several mathematical equations
and actually control how this thing operates.
To be able to do that with biological systems
we need to be able to use a similar type of math to be able to describe, for example, how
genes are expressed; the genes that make your eyes the color that they are
or make your heart cell functions like a heart cell or your lung cells function like your lung cell
to be able to manipulate how those things operate
to be able to understand how we can maneuver or adapt
for example a tree, to be able to do specific things.
It allows me to create. So just like how you have an artist
their means of creation are normally, you know, a canvas
and paint and paintbrushes
in a sense you can look at me being an engineer
or another variant of a mathematician
as an artist. You know, numbers are my means of
being able to basically create something
and in my case I am looking at creating things that hopefully
someday will benefit various problems that we face as a global community.