My name is Soumya Banerjee. I am a Ph.D student at the University of New Mexico (UNM). I am being advised by Dr. Melanie Moses.
I collaborate with Dr. Alan Perelson, Dr. Stephanie Forrest, Dr. Frederick Koster and Dr. Michael Gastner.

My research interest is in computational immunology. I use techniques from computer science to solve problems in immunology and take inspiration from immunology to solve problems in computer science. I am interested in investigating the effects of system size in complex systems like the immune system. How different is the immune system of a mouse from that of a human? What characteristics of the immune system change as the size of the animal increases?

The three principal questions that guide my research are -

              a) What happens to the flow of information, materials and energy as you make an immune system bigger?

              b) What happens to the topology and structure of the lymphatic network as you make immune systems bigger?
              c) Are there strategies employed by the immune system, for example decentralization, modularity, scale-invariant detection and response, that can be used to design more efficient computer systems?

 

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