AIChE

Topical
Conference
session

Professor
Ruedi
Achersold

- Presented the
development of
protein analytical
technology for the
study of biological
pathways

Professor
Gary
Stormo

- Discussed his
computational &
biophysical
approaches for the
identification and
study of genetic
regulation

Professor
Michael
Savageau

- Presented the
application for the
analysis of complex
cellular phenotypes &
molecular processes

Inference of biological principles & facts from experimental

data
Requires many skills; process synthesis, design, modeling
Modern biology challenges include:

BIOINFORMATICS
Enclosed a wide
range of
approaches,
techniques &
philosophies

Develop different modeling approaches

CHEMICAL
ENGINEERS

EMERGING
AREAS
Research activities
based on parts of
the core ChE
curriculum

Prepared to accept incomplete

knowledge about a system
Asking questions that are
necessary to complete the task

Work on
upstream &
downstream
problems

PERSPECTIVE OF
BIOINFORMATICS,
GENOMICS, AND
CHEMICAL
ENGINEER

Based on experimentally derived information &

serve important roles
Help organize disparate information into coherent
whole
Encourage logical thought about which
components and interactions are essential for
complex system
Make corrections to conventional wisdom

CHEMICAL ENGINEER
VS MOLECULAR
BIOLOGIST/GENETICIST
Engineering approach to
problem saving

Not dwelling on details

that are less critical

Difficulties in organizing & extracting useful information from wide amount of raw
data
Development of mathematical models

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STUDENTS
PARTICIPATION
Provide better
exposure to new
field
Help to develop
own perspectives &
ideas

Valuable
tools
=
nonlinear
dynamics,
optimization, first-principles modeling
Have not made equally significant contributions
Application of mathematics and statistics to
discovery & refinement of large sets of raw data
Eg: Data obtained from large-scale DNA
sequencing / mRNA expression profiling studies