The Old Man That Taught You to Code

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If anyone out there knows a very paternal guy named dug who has taught people to code, tell him i love him. Like actively codingislike the bigo same. I spend most of my time ether waiting the hods run iltake i days. Or downloding soltiles of data and im searching for the one gen that is the same as a date. And then you run lie arrows in your inter cob becausey cept four is my mortal enemy. Ahaha. Its its ner like the let's move on from nightmares to flym flam systems biology style. That res fond all our time.

Biological mysteries solved with numbers! Graphs! Patterns! Data points! Systems biology! You never knew it existed, yet it’s keeping us alive. Systems Biologist Dr. Emily E. Ackerman join to chat about why the field appealed to her, how her work shifted during the pandemic, why she wants to scream at Excel sometimes, how computing might replace specific types of animal testing, accessibility in STEM, the immune system, why she loves being a disabled scientist and advocate, the ethics of CRISPR, and some really nice guy named Doug.

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