a systems biologist who studies how cells self-organize and cooperate to perform sophisticated biological functions, such as building organs during embryonic development. To do this, I combine experiments (mainly zebrafish fluorescence microscopy), computation (including image analysis, data science, & simulations), and theory (from modeling all the way to philosophy). For my computational work I primarily use python.
Currently, I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Mayor lab at University College London.
🔧 I'm currently (mainly) working on...
- Developing new conceptual perspectives to understand complex living systems, such as the Core & Periphery (C&P) hypothesis 💥
- Studying the interplay of cell shape and cell fate using systems microscopy 🔬🐟
- My current project focuses on the zebrafish neural crest; more on this soon!
- In earlier related work I analyzed the cellular architecture of the zebrafish lateral line primordium; see my PhD paper!
- Two blog posts on systems microscopy for non-experts can be found here and here
- Automating microscopes to track migratory cell populations 🤖🔬
- Work in progress; more on this soon!
👀 Some repos worth checking out:
- Bioimage analysis with python; my hands-on, self-explanatory tutorial; a bit aged by now but still good; "vintage", one might say :p
- tissue_exploder; it's basic but it does look fancy, especially in 3D (see banner below)! :D
- TrackTree; another pretty visualization; maybe I'll actually need it for a paper one day, at which point I'll definitely update the code...
💡 My thoughts on...
- The present and future of developmental biology (blog)
- Synthetic developmental biology (review)
- Complex biological systems and optogenetics (review)
- Systems microscopy and digital tissues (blog)
Links to other profiles: UCL profile, LinkedIn, ORCID, Google Scholar, StackOverflow
