The Role of Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Life Sciences, Astronomy

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🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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What happens when biologists and engineers get together to study the natural world? Today’s ID the Future from the archive spotlights systems biology and the role engineers can play in leading-edge biology. Today's host is Eric Anderson. According to his guest Steve Laufmann, systems biology, which is taking the biological world by storm, is an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems, and seeks to better understand these systems.

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0:00.0	I. Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Eric Anderson and today I'm pleased to be joined by Steve
0:16.6	Lauphman who spearheads our engineering research group at the Center for Science
0:20.1	and Culture and is written on the engineering principles applicable to life.
0:24.0	Mr. Laufman is a consultant in the field of enterprise architecture
0:28.0	dealing with the design of very large complex composite information systems.
0:32.0	Welcome, Steve. Hey, good to be here, thanks. complex composite information systems.
0:32.6	Welcome, Steve.
0:33.5	Hey, good to be here, thanks.
0:35.4	So it's great to have you on the show.
0:36.7	I want to dive in and ask you how all this got started,
0:39.3	but let me first begin on a personal note.
0:41.4	It was three years ago, in fact almost exactly three years ago,
0:45.0	that I had the honor of meeting you for the first time through an introduction
0:50.0	from Brian Miller and Ann Gager and also got to meet some other key people involved in this area.
0:55.9	It's been a real privilege to work with you, Steve, to get the engineering research group up and
1:00.4	running and to organize our first conference on engineering and living systems which took place this past June.
1:06.0	Been a ton of work but wonderful to collaborate together and also to get to meet so many other engineers and scholars and scientists who are interested in this area.
1:15.0	So appreciate that and it's been a pleasure to be involved with that.
1:19.0	Well, it's been a real pleasure working with you.
1:22.0	I'm pretty sure that the conference would not have happened without your help. So thank you.
1:27.0	Definitely happy to help out. So you've been working on this
1:33.2	even before that though can you share with us just a little bit about your
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