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I am working as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Cell Biology and Biophysics Division, EMBL Heidelberg under Eric Karsenti, and am funded by BioMS (bio modeling and simulations www.bioms.de) for a 3-year period.
My primary interest is working at the interface of experiment and theory on spatial pattern formation in cells that occurs by self-organization in bioysystems, in contrast to the genetic or pre-programmed patterns, where specific rules exist for each part of the pattern. I primarily study use models of reaction diffusion (RD) and cytoskeletal dynamics at a very coarse-grained level using cytosim. I work with and extend the code for my own simulations. I am applying these principles to spindle assembly, as well as learning more about the mechanical motor-cytoskeleton interactions. Currently some interactions have revived my interest in using ActionScript and FLASH to visualize models and simulations. Some recent examples can be seen here . In the past I had used autonomous agentsto simulate the avascular growth of glioblastomas in a multi-scale system.  Experimental testing of models is a strong motivation for me. I perform microscopy experiments and image analysis on data (provided by collaborators or my own), to extract quantitative measures of the process- in this case spindle assembly. Research Experience
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