Yale scientists awarded $1.44 million

Two Yale scientists are part of a team that was recently awarded $1.44 million by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation of Seattle in an effort to fund innovative biotech research. Thierry Emonet, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology; Steve Zucker, Ph.D., the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering; and Thomas S. Shimizu, Ph.D., of the Netherlands‘ FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, plan to investigate the ways in which simple organisms coordinate while taking advantage of rather than suppressing their diversity. The team hopes its project will provide insight into general computational principles about collective interactions that could have applications “to other biological and social systems.”