Speaker Lunch - The Scientist as Woman
- 👤 Speaker: Dr. Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research
- 📅 Date & Time: Thursday 11 March 2010, 13:00 - 14:00
- 📍 Venue: Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26
Abstract
Jasmin Fisher Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Department of Biochemistry, Centre of Systems Biology, Cambridge University, UK
Trained as an experimental biologist in Physiology and Biophysics, later as a Neuroimmunologist working on the interface between injured central nervous system and immune cells at the Weizmann Institute of Science; I was transformed by living among computer scientists to become what is commonly known today as a Systems Biologist (or a Computational Biologist). Here I have embarked on a mission to help decipher biological complexity on various levels (e.g., signal transduction, cell‐cell communication) using executable models and formal verification methods. Our work is mainly focused on cellular decision‐ making processes during normal development and disease (e.g., cancer). This talk will be about the new science we call Executable Biology, its premises and challenges, but also about a woman, scientist, mother; mingled together to form the whole.
Series This talk is part of the Women@CL Events series.
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Dr. Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research
Thursday 11 March 2010, 13:00-14:00