Lin Wang

Greetings to all who look at this.

This is Lin. In 1998, I obtained a Bachelor in Science from University of Science and Technology in China. After graduation, I went to physics department of Indian University Bloomington to pursue a Ph.D. My research field is biophysics.

My research is understanding the functions of biological system, say, chemotaxis, phototransduction. Generally, biological systems respond and adapt to a wide range of stimuli, even thought both the external and internal environment of biological systems is noisy. My research interest is to understand these functions of biological systems from a stand point of view of information theory.

Looking forward to see you all.

My answers to the five questions:

1. What topics do you have some expertise in and would you be willing to help others learn them?

  I am familiar with modeling E. coli chemotaxis signal transduction network.   

2. What do you want to learn at the CSSS?

  General control and feedback meachnism in complex system.

3. Do you have any projects or research interests that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach?

  The study of other complex systems may shed light on one of my projects: optimal strategy of E. coli.

4. Do you have any ideas for what sort of project you would like to do work on with other CSSS students this summer?

5. Suppose you could travel one-hundred years in the future and ask researchers any three questions. What would those questions be?

  Are there universal fundamental principles accounting for various behavioral phenomena in biology?

  Have people explained all biological phenomena by math and physics?

  Why can we think, is there finally a physical explanation?