Dr. Emily E. Ackerman, a Systems Biologist, wears a golden yellow turtleneck and black pinstriped pants and gold rimmed glasses and smiles lightly toward camera. She has long golden hair as well and sits in her motorized wheelchair.

Biological mysteries solved with numbers! Graphs! Patterns! Data points! Systems biology! You never knew it existed, yet it’s keeping us alive. Systems Biologist Dr. Emily E. Ackerman join to chat about why the field appealed to her, how her work shifted during the pandemic, why she wants to scream at Excel sometimes, how computing might replace specific types of animal testing, accessibility in STEM, the immune system, why she loves being a disabled scientist and advocate, the ethics of CRISPR, and some really nice guy named Doug.

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