A bit about me
Associate Professor at the Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change, Tohoku University AIMEC Research Affiliate at UH Mānoa
I’m interested in the coordination and optimization of cellular scale processes, how objectives - like fitness or entropy production - are influenced by the streams of information between tiers of biological organization, and how all this complexity is imprinted in the genetic code. I enjoy thinking about these layers of biological complexity as they relate to the ecology and biogeochemistry of the oceans. More
Recent works and perspectives
Redox-selective remineralization decouples marine carbon and oxygen cycles
Exploring how the photosynthetic quotient and the respiratory quotient modulate oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange.
Reconciling hyperbolic and stepwise-linear kinetics
Some thoughts about Monod, Droop and Blackman, and how to reconcile them with a mechanistic model.
CBIOMES
Ongoing research with the Simons Foundation Collaboration on Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems. Watch a narrated slide show of what’s in the works and check out a case-study applying detailed mechanistic models of Prochlorococcus physiology and metabolism across an eddy-dipole.
A mechanistic model of substrate transport
Check out our mechanistic model of substrate limited microbial growth kinetics. A way to derive nutrient transport rates and growth rates from physiological data and genome-scale models. Easier than it sounds!