Elihu Gerson - Biological research and engineering collaboration: Some organizational considerations
Channel: Dominic Berry
Date: 2021-07-12

This video advertises a forthcoming seminar (5/10/2021) in the Biological Engineering Collaboratory seminar series for 2021. Details about this talk and the entire series can be found here: https://www.bioengcoll.org/bec-seminars-2021.html

Biological research and engineering collaboration: Some organizational considerations

Collaboration across specialties includes more than epistemic integration. This talk discusses some organizational aspects of inter-specialty cooperation which must be understood and accommodated if effective integration and coordination of biological and engineering approaches is to succeed: 1) How integration of workflows proceeds at both project and specialty levels; 2) How differences in technical focus (models, data handling, characterization of phenomena, problem agendas) can be reconciled; 3) How ways of organizing and coordinating work in different contexts (e.g., research vs development, academia vs industry) can be integrated with established institutions. Such efforts can be conceptualized as multiple inter-dependent workflows, each a series of steps that contribute to the project as a whole. Some ways of conducting these collaborations will lead to significant changes in research and development conducted and integrated with other institutions. This will, in turn, impose new requirements on the conduct of research, education, and business.