Joining NICO and PLoS Computational Biology

With the new year, I’ve been invited to join the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems as an External Faculty, and the Editorial Board of PLoS Computational Biology. NICO is an institute dedicated to the study of complex systems, and is part of Northwestern University, in Evanston (a short train ride from Chicago). It is directed by Luis Am... Read more 05 Feb 2016 - 1 minute read

Richard Levins 1930-2016

Sad news for theoretical ecology: on Jan 19th, Richard Levins died in Cambridge, MA. He was 85 years old. His work has always been my main source of inspiration. I got to read some of his articles in college, when Antonio Bodini—who was then to become my PhD avisor—introduced Loop Analysis in a class on Environmental Impact Assessment. I immedi... Read more 22 Jan 2016 - 1 minute read

Beautiful places

Traveling is quite disruptive, especially when you have a family at home, and a lab to run. However, having to travel to incredibly beautiful destinations to meet old friends makes the whole ordeal much more pleasant. I have just returned to Chicago after a week in Monterey, CA, where I taught a short course on computing at the Hopkins Marine St... Read more 11 Oct 2015 - 1 minute read

My interests... in 8 minutes and 30 seconds!

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First BSD QBio Boot Camp @ MBL

Just came back from the very first BSD QBio Boot Camp @ MBL. A fantastic week --- it's been so great to see all the incoming graduate students, from all branches of Biology working and learning together! [caption id="attachment_412" align="alignnone" width="640"] Stephanie Palmer and yours truly --- the co-directors of the camp are ready to go b... Read more 13 Sep 2015 - less than 1 minute read

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