Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, April 15th, 2019 and I'm

Kara Santa Maria. I'm really excited about this week's episode but before we dive in I want to

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exciting exciting excited I don't know which it is whenever I find out that more people

have heard about the show I think we are small yet mighty and I'm really

really pumped about this week's episode. So I had the chance to sit down with Dr. Stacy Finley. So she's an associate professor of

biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, and material science, and

biological sciences. She's definitely in a multidisciplinary field.

In the USC, which is the University

of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering.

So she actually runs a computational,

computational, geez, she runs the computational systems biology laboratory at USC.

And in this laboratory they look at all sorts of mechanistic models of

biological processes so they use these computational models to learn how

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