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==Personal==
==Personal==
===Bio===
===Bio===
Born in Toronto in 1979.  Grew up there, and attended the [http://www.utoronto.ca University of Toronto] (UofT, not to be confused with UT, which is some school in texas I hear).  Graduated in 2002 with a BASc (BASc = bachelor of applied science = canadian engineering degree) in Biomedical Engineering from the [http://www.engsci.utoronto.ca/ Engineering Science] program.  For 3 summers in undergrad I worked for MDS Proteomics (which changed names to Protana Inc, and was bought out by [http://www.transitiontherapeutics.com/ Transition Therapeutics]). I started grad school at [http://web.mit.edu/ MIT] in [http://web.mit.edu/be Biological Engineering] (BE) in the fall of 2002.  In January of 2003 I joined [[Drew Endy]]'s lab.  I mainly joined his lab cause he seemed to be the craziest and most outside-of-the-box faculty member in BE.  I have been loosely involved in the synthetic biology community here (although my research is not really synth bio), including the sythetic biology working group, and I helped organize [http://syntheticbiology.org/Synthetic_Biology_1.0.html Synthetic Biology 1.0].  I am somehow on the OWW steering committee, despite the fact that I rarely use OWW. I seem to be the skeptic/realist in the group, which is needed 'cause I work with a bunch of optimistic hippies.
Born in Toronto in 1979.  Grew up there, and attended the [http://www.utoronto.ca University of Toronto] (UofT, not to be confused with UT, which is some school in texas I hear).  Graduated in 2002 with a BASc (BASc = bachelor of applied science = canadian engineering degree) in Biomedical Engineering from the [http://www.engsci.utoronto.ca/ Engineering Science] program.  For 3 summers in undergrad I worked for MDS Proteomics (which changed names to Protana Inc, and was bought out by [http://www.transitiontherapeutics.com/ Transition Therapeutics]). I started grad school at [http://web.mit.edu/ MIT] in [http://web.mit.edu/be Biological Engineering] (BE) in the fall of 2002.  In January of 2003 I joined [[Drew Endy]]'s lab.  I mainly joined his lab cause he seemed to be the craziest and most outside-of-the-box faculty member in BE.  I was been loosely involved in the synthetic biology community there (although my research was not really synth bio related), including the sythetic biology working group, and I helped organize [http://syntheticbiology.org/Synthetic_Biology_1.0.html Synthetic Biology 1.0].  I'm now working at [http://plectix.com/ Plectix BioSystems] in Somerville MA, helping develop a cool  web-based platform for biological modeling called [http://www.cellucidate.com Cellucidate].
 
 
[[Image:Ty_and_beer.jpg|thumb|right|Ty on the Sam Adams brewery tour]]


===Hobbies===
===Hobbies===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewing Beer brewing]
*Beer brewing
*Snowboarding
*Snowboarding
...I must have other hobbies...  Am I really that lame?<p>
*Mountain biking
*Rollerblading
*Playing various team sports - hockey, football, softball (if that counts as a 'sport')
 
''Things I'm good at that aren't quite hobbies''
''Things I'm good at that aren't quite hobbies''
*Sleeping
*Sleeping  
*Washing dishes
*Washing dishes


===Contact===
===Contact===
'''Physical Address'''<br>
'''Email Address'''<br/>
31 Ames St.<br>
ty -dot- thomson -at- gmail -dot- com<br/>
68-570<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
'''Phone Number'''<br>
617.258.8684<br>
'''Virtual Address'''<br>
tmt -at- mit -dot- edu


==Science==
==Science==
===Interests===
===Interests===
*Modeling
*Computational modeling of signalling pathways
*Parameter sensitivity/identifiability
*Parameter sensitivity/identifiability
*Microfluidics
*Microfluidics
*Yeast pheromone response
*Yeast pheromone response


===[[TMT Thesis Project|Thesis Project]]===
===Thesis Project===
[http://www.yeastpheromonemodel.org/ YeastPheromoneModel.org]


===Publications===
===Blog===
*Stewart, I. I., Thomson, T., Figeys, D., and Duewel, H. S. (2003). "The Use of 18O Labeling as a Tool for Proteomic Applications", Handbook of Proteomic Methods, Edited by P. Michael Conn. Chapter 11, pages 145-179. (Totowa, New Jersey: Human Press Inc.)
[http://blog.plectix.com/ The Plectix Blog]
*Stewart, I. I., Thomson, T., and Figeys, D. (2001). 18O labeling: a tool for proteomics. Rapid Commun. Mass. Spectrom. 15, 2456-2465

Latest revision as of 12:39, 1 March 2010

Personal

Bio

Born in Toronto in 1979. Grew up there, and attended the University of Toronto (UofT, not to be confused with UT, which is some school in texas I hear). Graduated in 2002 with a BASc (BASc = bachelor of applied science = canadian engineering degree) in Biomedical Engineering from the Engineering Science program. For 3 summers in undergrad I worked for MDS Proteomics (which changed names to Protana Inc, and was bought out by Transition Therapeutics). I started grad school at MIT in Biological Engineering (BE) in the fall of 2002. In January of 2003 I joined Drew Endy's lab. I mainly joined his lab cause he seemed to be the craziest and most outside-of-the-box faculty member in BE. I was been loosely involved in the synthetic biology community there (although my research was not really synth bio related), including the sythetic biology working group, and I helped organize Synthetic Biology 1.0. I'm now working at Plectix BioSystems in Somerville MA, helping develop a cool web-based platform for biological modeling called Cellucidate.


Ty on the Sam Adams brewery tour

Hobbies

  • Beer brewing
  • Snowboarding
  • Mountain biking
  • Rollerblading
  • Playing various team sports - hockey, football, softball (if that counts as a 'sport')

Things I'm good at that aren't quite hobbies

  • Sleeping
  • Washing dishes

Contact

Email Address
ty -dot- thomson -at- gmail -dot- com

Science

Interests

  • Computational modeling of signalling pathways
  • Parameter sensitivity/identifiability
  • Microfluidics
  • Yeast pheromone response

Thesis Project

YeastPheromoneModel.org

Blog

The Plectix Blog