The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.
One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.
I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.
Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.
I have a thing for tools.
We're at the beginning of the digitization and automation of biotech.
Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.
In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.