To Kill or Not To Kill, that is A question.
About Me
“Science is a lie.”
From someone who got a PhD and currently is doing research. Don’t get me wrong, I like science, but you know why I put it here.
I am a PhD student working on theoretical immunology. Most of my time is spent on mathematical modelling and coding (or, let’s be realistic, a fair bit of jiggling and wiggling). I do, however, hope to reconnect with experimental work in the foreseeable future (let’s see how it goes).
I was originally trained as an experimentalist in nanomedicine during my undergraduate studies, with brief experience in electrobiochemistry. This undergraduate background enables me to operate several machines, including scanning electron microscopy and flow cytometry. I was once an enthusiastic collector of cell lines and worked with various experimental animals. My favourite courses were Physical Chemistry and Molecular Biology.
Then I realised I wasn’t entirely happy with the research I was doing then —- substituting elements in a therapeutic delivery system and trying to claim it was working for tumour therapy. I came to realise the complexity in immune systems, I need to learn more mathematics, physics, and computing for a more comprehensive and quantitative perspective or immunology. Therefore I moved to Imperial College London for an MRes in Systems and Synthetic Biology and have since stayed in the same lab for my PhD.
My Current Research
A bit vague. I’ll let you know when I have some publications to point to.
- How NK cells make cytotoxic decisions
- Agent-based modelling of killer immune cell–tumour interactions
- Bayesian inference for quantitative analysis of NK cell cytotoxicity