Author Archives: Daniel

Mad science happenings April roundup

By Daniel | Published: May 1, 2012

So, what’s new, you ask? iGEM Those are some Hunter iGEM team members with Sung Won Lim, one of our mentors, over at Genspace, a community lab I’m a member of. Everybody’s favorite bacterial computing project is getting off the ground. We’ve received a dozen student applications and expect a few more. Our team is [...]

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Bacterial hash functions for better living.

By Daniel | Published: April 4, 2012
xorsim2

Well hello there. It’s been a while! Since my last post I’ve moved to East Harlem (El Barrio) and started working with my Hunter iGEM team on bacterial computers! We’re official! What’s iGEM? It’s an international competition to use and create standardized biological parts to create biological machines. Here’s a old but neat New Yorker [...]

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A simulating winter!

By Daniel | Published: January 26, 2012

That’s a graph automatically generated by the cell signalling pathway simulation automation software I developed over the winter break. It’s a bit ugly — a quick and dirty CDF rendered in R of activation times of ERK in the TCR (T-Cell Receptor) pathway model for a particular endogenous pMHC ligand dosage. Fancy lingo, eh? The [...]

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Tenatative steps towards genome visualization

By Daniel | Published: December 30, 2011
borrelia_cp26

Genomic data is rather beautiful in that the stirrings and mysteries of life can be glimpsed within it. I’ve been dabbling in making functional genomic art — mostly with spiral representations of bacterial DNA. Here’s a rendering of Borrelia burgdorferi plasmid cp26. We’re studying Borrelia in the lab. My first experiments (here and here) are [...]

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Eloquent EEG explanation:

By Daniel | Published: December 14, 2011
daniel_eeg

One of my latest distractions is development of an EEG and biosensors workshop at Hack Manhattan, a NYC-based hackerspace I founded in September.  I wanted to share this really great explanation of brainwaves from the NeuroSky website. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can only change forms but cannot be created or destroyed. [...]

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