Viviane Callier

Hi there!

I'm Vivi, half Belgian, half Chinese; grew up in the Washington DC area (Maryland side!). My undergrad degree is in biology - I did a morphometrics project studying the ecology and evolution of snails from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Last year, I worked on early tetrapod fossils in Cambridge, for my masters degree in palaeontology. As a grad student at Duke, I'm currently working on modeling cell signaling networks, with the goal of understanding the function and evolution of these networks. The real goal is to develop a more general understanding of the cumulative effects of feedback interactions (which seem to be everywhere in the network I study!) over long periods of time. How do complex interactions happening at the scale of minutes or hours connect to long term physiological outcomes (disease progression)? how do they connect to evolutionary dynamics? I'm really looking forward to learning about modeling complex systems at different hierarchical scales at the CSSS in Beijing this summer.

I am a huge fan of Gregory Bateson.

Looking forward to meeting you in Beijing!!

Vivi