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Walter Fontana

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— anonymous I am a theorist and computational scientist working on fundamental problems in systems biology at Harvard Medical School. What is systems biology? The field of systems biology emerged in response to the swelling bounty of high-throughput data about molecular aspects of cell biology. These data intensified the need for understanding how coherent system behavior arises (or is lost) from a staggering diversity of molecular assemblies that interact with one another asynchronously and autonomously. Systems biology, thus, aims at developing and integrating new experimental and mathematical techniques in the pursuit of principles that would make the nature of cellular phenotypes more intelligible and their control more deliberate. This pursuit is driven by the practical need to cure disease. However, it also reflects a want for a theoretical perspective needed to think the complexity of the cell and the organism, and, by extension, evolution itself. I am interested in three chemi

Resist fascism. “Those who dance are often seen as mad by those who cannot hear the music.” — anonymous I am a theorist and computational scientist working on fundamental problems in systems biology at Harvard Medical School. What is systems biology? The field of systems biology emerged in response to the swelling bounty of high-throughput data about molecular aspects of cell biology. These data intensified the need for understanding how coherent system behavior arises (or is lost) from a staggering diversity of molecular assemblies that interact with one another asynchronously and…

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