Olaoluwayimika receives best undergraduate oral presentation award at summer RAPS

Olaoluwayimika Olugbenle, a recent graduate from Clarkson’s Electrical and Computer Engineering undergraduate program, received the best undergraduate oral presentation award in the Bio, Environmental, and Social Sciences track during the summer RAPS. His work also received a third-place price of $50 at the undergraduate pitch-off. Olaoluwayimika worked this summer in Dr. Emmanuel Asante-Asamani’s research group in the mathematics department to optimize existing algorithms for simulating the formation of tissue spot patterns in fruit flies and create a user-friendly, interactive application to help developmental biologist run computerized tissue patterning simulations.  His work is part of a broader effort by Dr. Asante-Asamani and developmental biologist, Dr. Ginger Hunter of Howard University, to understand how cells communicate over long distances during the creation of tissue scale spot patterns. This work is currently supported by the joint NSF/NIGMS mathematical biology program under Award Number R01GM152810.