¶ … computer science and the different scientific domains at MIT
Fortunately for myself, MIT's computer science division is closely related to many other scientific divisions in that institution. MIIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department offer students the opportunity to interface between Computer Sciences and the Life sciences so exposure in this field may open me up to the disciplines of (amongst other areas) computational biology, synthetic biology, medical image analysis, bioinformatics, and computer assisted surgery.
Since an impressive amount of MIT Laboratories (associated with different scientific domains) are connected to computer science, I will focus only on those that particularly interest me:
Berwick's laboratory where applied mathematical and modeling principals are investigated in order to develop computer models for biological systems such as DNA and genotype testing. Computational mathematic models are used in order to gain a deeper insight into the complexities of interaction of genes with the cellular environment and with their properties. Evolutionary components are also investigated.
2. Demaine's laboratory (http://erikdemaine.org/) which focuses on algorithms, data structures and geometry as its modus operands of research.
3. Gifford's laboratory that integrates computer science with understanding gene expression programs in living cells in order to control and regulate their function. Leading research seems to have been conducted in this laboratory (such as constructive models of the yeast cell cycle and involvement of diabetes-related transcription factors with human pancreas and liver). This is exciting work since it may generate greater understanding into various terminal diseases that still remain unknown and may expand knowledge of embryonic stem cells research for treatment of these debilitating diseases.
4. Golland's laboratory uses computer science as a means of elucidating and analyzing various biological processes. Doing so stretches the boundaries of medical and biological domains. Current research areas include developing techniques for characterizing biological shape and its variability invaluable in various domains such as from modeling cortical folding in neonatal brains to understanding how genetic perturbations affect the appearance end behavior of cells.
Another areas of research involves functional MRI, which is at the forefront of all neuroscientific related fields from psychology to medicine to, indeed, a variety of human scientific domains. Improving fMRI (which is what her laboratory attempts to do) means improving...
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