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Dr. Muhammad H. Zaman selected to participate in the 6th Annual NAFKI Conference
 Dr. Muhammad H. Zaman, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
has been selected to participate in the 6th Annual National Academies
Keck Futures Initiative Conference this year in November. This years
topic of complexity will focus on complex biological, physical and
social systems. The conference board, comprising of members of national
academy of sciences, national academy of engineering and the Institute
of medicine selected participants from over 350 applicants which
included assistant, associate and full professors from institutions
across that nation, leading researchers in industry and national labs.
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative was created to stimulate
new modes of inquiry and break down the conceptual and institutional
barriers to interdisciplinary research that could yield significant
benefits to science and society. The National Academies and Keck
Foundation believe that considerable scientific progress will be
achieved by providing a counterbalance to the powerful impulse to
isolate research within academic fields, by engaging scientists from
different disciplines to focus on new questions on which they can base
entirely new research, and by encouraging and rewarding outstanding
communication -- between scientists as well as between the scientific
enterprise and the public. The National Academies Keck Futures
Initiative is funded through a generous grant from the W.M. Keck
Foundation.
Dr. Zaman's lab studies biological complexity in the context of
multi-scale architecture of cellular structure and function. Using
computational tools rooted in statistical and continuum mechanics,
informatics and high resolution imaging, the Zaman lab studies the
integration of length and timescales in cell signaling, cell migration
and cell-matrix interactions. More information about research conducted
by Prof. Zaman can be found at http://zlabs.bme.utexas.edu. |
