Blogging #CBSymp16

Getting ready for the PLoS Computational Biology Symposium 2016 (or #CBSymp16), at the Bethesda Main Campus of the National Institutes of Health.

The focus of the symposium is the ‘Past, Present, and Future’ of Computational Biology. I’ll be live blogging highlights of the talks and discussions throughout the day. You can find the full schedule here:

http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/files/2016/08/CB_Symposium-Agenda_5-1_for-online.pdf

A little about me:

I’m interested in how dynamic, morphogenetic events are integrated during development; specifically, how cytoskeletal derived mechanical forces impact cell signalling, cell fate decisions, and tissue organisation. My postdoctoral research at the University College London and the NIH addresses this line of questioning using sensory bristle patterning in fruit flies as a model system. I’m an experimentalist by training and incorporate modelling of our system with the help of physicists and more mathematically inclined collaborators.