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I am an Experimental Officer in the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB) in charge of information management. The MCISB is pioneering the development of new technologies in systems biology, a new approach to genomics which uses complex computational and mathematical analysis to advance on traditional methods.

The MCISB is housed by the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB), an interfaculty initiative specifically designed to foster a scientific culture in which there are no barriers between the disciplines, thus ensuring that the widest possible range of expertise and techniques can be brought to bear on important bioscience problems. The focus at the MIB is on promoting the highest standards in bioscience research, recognising the importance of technology development in modern biology and with an emphasis on quantitative and integrative approaches that draw on skills, expertise and instrumentation from the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics and computer science.

The MIB houses more than 500 scientists in up to 85 research groups. Each MIB member is affiliated to a School in the University of Manchester. I am officially affiliated to the School of Computer Science, where I am a member of the Information Management Group.

My responsibilities involve:

Software development and information management in systems biology models of complex systems.
Development of methods of text mining for use in systems biology.
Identifying, maintaining and improving systems, databases, websites and other activities which support the relevant part of the Centre.
Maintaining professional relationships with project partners and other relevant professionals.

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Culture

Mileva Marić

Mileva Einstein Marić, the woman who did Einstein's mathematics. She was a first-rate mathematician, admitted to the elite Swiss Polytechnic in times when women were not even allowed to vote. Albert Einstein shared all his physics ideas with his first wife and was extremely interested in her opinion. Yet the myth of the isolated Einstein working alone, who all by himself, without help from anyone, wrote four brilliant papers on physics in 1905, endures. The world, however, should know the name and credit should be given to an equally brilliant scientist.

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla invented just about everything. When you work on a computer, remember Tesla. His Tesla Coil supplies the high voltage for the picture tube you use. The electricity for your computer comes from a Tesla-designed AC generator, is sent through a Tesla transformer, and gets to your house through 3-phase Tesla power. "The world will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination." E.H. Armstrong ...

Vuk Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, the great Serbian language reformer, abandoned letters in the Old Church Slavonic alphabet that had no function in the living language and devised new signs to represent sounds of the Serbian language for which there were no existing letters (following the rule "write as you speak, read as it is written"). His work resulted in the Serbian cyrillic alphabet, the only phonetic alphabet in the world.