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==Personal== | ==Personal== | ||
===Bio=== | ===Bio=== | ||
Born in Toronto in 1979. Grew up there, and attended the [http://www.utoronto.ca University of Toronto] (UofT, not to be confused with UT, which is some school in texas I hear). Graduated in 2002 with a BASc (BASc = bachelor of applied science = canadian engineering degree) in Biomedical Engineering from the [http://www.engsci.utoronto.ca/ Engineering Science] program. For 3 summers in undergrad I worked for MDS Proteomics (which changed names to Protana Inc, and was bought out by [http://www.transitiontherapeutics.com/ Transition Therapeutics]). I started grad school at [http://web.mit.edu/ MIT] in [http://web.mit.edu/be Biological Engineering] (BE) in the fall of 2002. In January of 2003 I joined [[Drew Endy]]'s lab. I mainly joined his lab cause he seemed to be the craziest and most outside-of-the-box faculty member in BE. I | Born in Toronto in 1979. Grew up there, and attended the [http://www.utoronto.ca University of Toronto] (UofT, not to be confused with UT, which is some school in texas I hear). Graduated in 2002 with a BASc (BASc = bachelor of applied science = canadian engineering degree) in Biomedical Engineering from the [http://www.engsci.utoronto.ca/ Engineering Science] program. For 3 summers in undergrad I worked for MDS Proteomics (which changed names to Protana Inc, and was bought out by [http://www.transitiontherapeutics.com/ Transition Therapeutics]). I started grad school at [http://web.mit.edu/ MIT] in [http://web.mit.edu/be Biological Engineering] (BE) in the fall of 2002. In January of 2003 I joined [[Drew Endy]]'s lab. I mainly joined his lab cause he seemed to be the craziest and most outside-of-the-box faculty member in BE. I was been loosely involved in the synthetic biology community there (although my research was not really synth bio related), including the sythetic biology working group, and I helped organize [http://syntheticbiology.org/Synthetic_Biology_1.0.html Synthetic Biology 1.0]. I'm now working at [http://plectix.com/ Plectix BioSystems] in Somerville MA, helping develop a cool web-based platform for biological modeling called [http://www.cellucidate.com Cellucidate]. | ||
[[Image:Ty_and_beer.jpg|thumb|right|Ty on the Sam Adams brewery tour]] | |||
===Hobbies=== | ===Hobbies=== | ||
* | *Beer brewing | ||
*Snowboarding | *Snowboarding | ||
*Mountain biking | |||
*Rollerblading | |||
*Playing various team sports - hockey, football, softball (if that counts as a 'sport') | |||
''Things I'm good at that aren't quite hobbies'' | ''Things I'm good at that aren't quite hobbies'' | ||
*Sleeping | *Sleeping | ||
*Washing dishes | *Washing dishes | ||
===Contact=== | ===Contact=== | ||
''' | '''Email Address'''<br/> | ||
ty -dot- thomson -at- gmail -dot- com<br/> | |||
==Science== | ==Science== | ||
===Interests=== | ===Interests=== | ||
* | *Computational modeling of signalling pathways | ||
*Parameter sensitivity/identifiability | *Parameter sensitivity/identifiability | ||
*Microfluidics | *Microfluidics | ||
*Yeast pheromone response | *Yeast pheromone response | ||
=== | ===Thesis Project=== | ||
[http://www.yeastpheromonemodel.org/ YeastPheromoneModel.org] | |||
=== | ===Blog=== | ||
[http://blog.plectix.com/ The Plectix Blog] | |||