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The Battalion I 2.11.15
Arul Jayaraman
is a recipient
of the AIMBE
award, which
honors two
percent of
scientists
throughout the
country.
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Microbiologist receives fellowship for cell communication
The Battalion news reporter Kasey
Khoobiar sits down with Arul
Jayaraman, associate professor in the
Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical
Engineering at Texas A&M and newly
elected fellow of the American Institute
for Medical and Biological Engineering,
to discuss his AIMBE membership, a
membership only offered to the top
two percent of the country's most
accomplished medical and biological
engineers.
THE BATTALION:Tell us a little about
AIMBE.
JAYARAMAN: Basically it's an
organization that was formed to both
recognize outstanding achievements in
bioengineering — very broadly defined
medical and biological engineering
— and also to use it as a forum for
advocating for science and engineering
for policy matters, et cetera. I think
AIMBE acts to promote and further the
interests of the science community by
taking prominent people, much more
prominent than me, and giving them the
platform to talk for others to hear who
can help.
THE BATTALION: Your research is in
molecular systems biology. What does
that mean in layman's terms?
JAYARAMAN: Chemical engineers in
general work with molecules, molecules
and reactions for producing something
or for understanding how something
works. I fall in the latter category.
Systems biology is basically a term
used to describe application of chemical
engineering principles and approaches
to biological problems. It's a new area
of research that has come up in recent
years. So for example, one can take a
cell and treat it just like one would treat
a chemical plant because in a chemical
plant you are producing something, and
a cell produces something, so concepts
that you apply to maximize production
of something in a chemical process in a
plant can, in theory, be applied to a cell
and be used to produce something or
to manipulate it or to understand how it
works.
THE BATTALION: What made you
take an interest in molecular systems
biology?
JAYARAMAN: When I started my career,
that's when this was coming up, this
started coming up. I have some really
good colleagues here who — we just
got started talking, and just got working
on it, it just happened.
THE BATTALION: What is the focus of
your research?
JAYARAMAN: So basically, right now, we
specifically focus on the interkingdom
signaling and interaction between
bacteria and host cells. That is basically
the main aspect that we focus on.
THE BATTALION: What is the impact
you foresee your research having on
the scientific community?
JAYARAMAN: So this can potentially
have an impact in several diseases,
ranging anywhere from cancer,
inflammatory bowel disease, to obesity,
all of which have some component that
involves the bacteria in the body. My
lab, we work with the people over at the
vet school, the med school, the people
in AgriLife, who bring the expertise in
these different diseases to try and work
together on this.
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