Aaron Brooks
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Hello! I am a PhD student with Nitin Baliga at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, WA.
My lab centers around the microscopic movers and shakers of the planet. We model the interactions of microbes with their environment and also with each other to suggest ways in which we can modify their behavior to accomplish important socioeconomic tasks. Our models and provide a means to compare regulatory architectures across species. We strongly emphasize the role of gene regulatory reorganization in adaptation.
As for my specific research interests, I am fascinated by biological information processing -- or at least how we can observe and predict the propagation of information within living systems.
Interests
Mi
Expertise
Experimental molecular biology and biochemistry
Microbiology
Evolutionary dynamics (though this is a scary thing to suppose expertise in)
Gene regulatory networks
Systems/synthetic biology
My hopes for CSSS
I'd really like
Other
- Outdoors (hiking, climbing, mountaineering, biking)
- Food (I brew beer and roast coffee)
Open Ideas/Suggestions/Questions I have
- How to compare graphs?
- How to integrate phenomenon that occur across scales (time scale, level of organization)?
- Usefulness (or not) of interval mathematics to model social and biological systems?