Systems biology

So I received my PhD from Texas A&M University, where I really focused on how bacteria organize themselves subcellularly.

And now recently at Discovery, I've... been focused on systems biology and even more specifically how we can use design and engineering principles in biology to improve biological research.

Okay, awesome.

And for those who don't know what systems biology is, we're definitely going to be unpacking that and how it relates to engineering and to ID.

Brian, what about you? Well, I have

a PhD in complex systems physics, and I've been working at Discovery Institute as a research scientist for the last 10 years.

So I'm going to ask, I'm going to direct some questions to you specifically before I get Brian's take on some other research.

Although you're both welcome to weigh in on each other's responses.

You know, there are many different areas that we might need to be addressing that would be contributing to someone's symptoms.

And when we think about health from a systems biology perspective, which is the perspective that I take, it makes sense that we actually need to support multiple different physiological inputs and then collectively these influence the body together.

And I will probably sound like a broken record, but this is the foundational five.

This is what I talk about all the time on the podcast.

My goal with these podcasts is to break it down for you in a way that's meaningful and understandable, but also bring it back to context.

Research in these types of complex health conditions is notoriously difficult to conduct because they can only take one little piece and investigate that.

And as I've said already, we're really looking at a systems biology approach.

We can't measure all the things in every system all at once.

And to discuss this topic, I have with me here Dr. Ignacio Mata.

He's Associate Staff of Genomic Sciences and Systems Biology, Cleveland Clinic Research.

and Associate Professor, Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of the Case Western Reserve University.

Welcome to the podcast.