Congratulations to Professor Amy Rowat for receiving a $662k grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) for her project titled, “NUDT5 as a Novel Target for Ovarian Cancer.” We are excited to see what amazing research comes out of this project!

A very insightful paper by my good friend Eric Deeds disputing the validity of the ubiquitous Wadington Landscape perspective to explain cellular states. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Top 10 most downloaded article in the #BullMathBiol, May 2022: Teaching Dynamics to Biology Undergraduates: the UCLA Experience by Garfinkel Alan Garfinkel, Bennoun, Deeds Eric Deeds & Van Valkenburgh  Congrats to the authors! 👏👏👏 🌎 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

What does it take to break through in academia? Join a group with a shared purpose. As co-director of the IRACDA at UCLA program with Mike Carey UCLA we are helping to launch the career of postdoctoral fellows. Providing a structured mentoring program has proved to be effective.

The Department of Molecular Biosciences is hiring, not 1, not 2, but 5 positions this year. We want you to be our colleague! Please share widely! Below are links to the job and information on the chair in case you have questions (also can contact me)

Using experimental evolution to study human disease: Ryan Vignogna led this collaborative effort with Ethan Perlstein bio/acc, Richard Steet, and Pina Andreotti. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

🏆 Most downloaded article 📰 in the #BullMathBiol SpringerMath in February 2023: Teaching Dynamics to Biology Undergraduates: the UCLA Experience, by Alan Garfinkel, Steve Bennoun, Eric Deeds, Blaire Valkenburgh Congratulations to the authors. Edu4SMB link.springer.com/article/10.100…

It's up! This is an awesome collab with the one and only Eric Deeds and led by MS student Gunalan Natesan. We describe a new metric for comparing measurements aligned to cell lineages and use it to learn a bunch of new things about cell cycles in the lineage. Tweetorial to come!

Eric Deeds Kids are asleep, so let’s dig in! Molecular and imaging techniques for lineage tracing get better every day, but whoa you get a lot of data! How do you squeeze piles of trees and measurements into a nugget of biological insight? We came up with some ideas! 1/

#MPI2023 Day 3: Another day of fantastic talks on GPCR domains, TF binding sites Zhiping Weng,cryo-EM maps Daisuke Kihara,mitigation strategies Diane Joseph-McCarthy,proteasome self-assembly Eric Deeds,Kinetics of interactions Yinglong Miao,binding affinity Yang Shen, SARS-CoV-2,#DOCKGROUND

Glad our paper is finally out. Thanks to the BrooksGroup gang! Look for the pyCHARMM MSLD workshop coming in late July. pyCHARMM: Embedding CHARMM Functionality in a Python Framework | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

“Mr. McCarthy moved to *El Paso, N.M.*”🧐 I point this out only because Cormac himself would find it amusing. One of the funniest, most curious, warmest, and brightest people I’ve ever had the pleasure to know. I’ll miss him dearly: nytimes.com/2023/06/13/boo…

For those who want to know more about what Cormac McCarthy was like, here's some short remembrances about him from those very close to him at SFI, including me. santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

At #2023WCSDB? Say hi to Gunalan Natesan and Ryan Johnson presenting posters tonight! Gunalan studies the structure of cell lineages in collaboration with Eric Deeds and Ryan studies developmental heterogeneity in wild isolates of C. elegans in collaboration with Erik Andersen!

I was fortunate enough to spend a week at Harvard with Alan Garfinkel Brendan Kelly and Eric Deeds learning about this course! Looking to implement some of these ideas here at CSUSM.

Our paper with Eric Deeds is now up on PLoS Comp Bio. Some new goodies since the preprint including an implementation of a generalized form of the branch distance! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Join us for a master class in teaching math modeling for life science students. Learn from Alan Garfinkel how to teach dynamics to undergraduates without a calculus prerequisite. June 23 - June 28 More info and register: math.harvard.edu/event/2024-mas… #iteachmath #maa

Hey folks, we're repeating last year's successful workshop at Harvard in how to teach modeling and dynamics to undergrad life science students with *no* previous calculus. Please join me, Brendan Kelly, Eric Deeds and Jennifer Czocher (Texas State) in June.

That's a wrap for the 2024 "Master Class in Teaching Math Modeling for Life Sciences" workshop! Thanks to our instructors, Alan Garfinkel and Eric Deeds, as well as all the participants who brought lively discussion and unique perspectives to the table! #harvardmath #math