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Bacterial hash functions for better living.

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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!

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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Meditation on slaying my career dragons.

Update: More stuff that will bore you if you aren’t pre-med at Hunter. As of today, Feb 25th, I’ve been relieved to discover two facts. First, Hunter does in fact have an active student pre-med/biology/AMSA group, and I’ve started to get involved, so that’s good. Somehow I completely failed to find the dedicated prehealthhunter.com website [...]

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