Computational Synthetic Biological Microfluidics
SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE
Douglas Densmore (Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering)
This project is investigating the creation of a complete computational microfluidic design ecosystem, which a software workflow to decompose specific Models of Computation (MoCs) such as data flow, process networks, finite state machines, and synchronous reactive models into primitive biological components that can be mapped to a custom microfluidic device. This work promises to take the investigator’s research in a new direction: a rigorous examination of what models of computation are available (and applicable) to forward engineered biological systems.
This work is funded by a Hariri Research Award made in June, 2014.