Projects

Inspired by RxOL and Pesto, I am building a recipe app that uses the structure of recipes to allow a richer set of features and programmatic recipe analysis than in typical recipe sites or cookbooks.

Link to come!

I spoke about the role of Rosen's anticipatory systems in evolutionary theory at the International Conference on Anticipatory Systems and Rosennean Complexity in Mexico City.

Read the extended abstract, p. 31 →

In a large, undifferentiated group of cells, the cells on the outside take up all the nutrients first, starving the inside and setting a microscopic upper bound on size.

During my PhD, I studied how snowflake yeast, which, as newly-evolving multicellular organisms, have no special adaptations for circulating nutrients, can overcome the nutrient diffusion problem via emergent metabolically-driven flows. The work adds to a growing body of evidence that biophysical phenomena can scaffold evolution.

Read the paper →

I helped my friend and colleague Pedro Márquez-Zacarías curate an online repository of the work and correspondence of Robert Rosen, theoretical biologist, with the collaboration and blessing of Judith Rosen, who maintains her father's archives. We hope it will nurture the growing interest in Rosen's work globally.

Visit rosenlife.org →

In collaboration with one of my PhD advisors, Will Ratcliff, I wrote a simulation to demonstrate a hypothesis about why complex multicellularity has arisen multiple times in eukaryotes but not in prokaryotes.

Read the paper →

I helped migrate the website of Atlanta Friends Meeting (a Quaker meeting I attend) to WordPress from an older, pure HTML site to make it easier to navigate and allow Friends to collaborate on it and maintain their own pages if desired. I now serve as Web Manager, helping maintain the CMS and content on an ongoing basis.

Visit atlantaquakers.org →