I am interested in understanding the dynamic behavior of biological systems which develop and evolve. The description of development and evolution in mathematical terms is neither easy nor standard, and thus some of the research has been to develop a functional formalism for describing and analyzing these processes. But it appears that a greater barrier to progress in these problems is the lack of appropriate and coherent empirical information about real biological systems. For this reason, efforts are underway to develop not only models but also techniques and instruments for the quantitative characterization of specific systems.
Current studies involve hydroids, the heart, and microbial populations.