Cody Wood |
Cody Wood, CWRU senior biomedical engineering undergraduate, is a featured author in the groundbreaking textbook "Systems Bioinformatics: An Engineering Case-Based Approach". The textbook is primarily focused on research that applies engineering systems approaches to biomedical problems and includes a CD-ROM with several programs, slides, and links. Co-edited by lead author, Gil Alterovitz, PhD, a faculty member of Harvard Medical School who also teaches at Harvard University and is affiliated with MIT, and Carlo F. Ramoni, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Harvard, and MIT, the textbook is part of the series Bioinformatics and Biomedical Imaging published by Artech House Publishers, February 28, 2007. It will be used for undergraduate coursework at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technologies
Cody is the primary author of Chapter 9, Fundamentals of Design for Synthetic Biology, which introduces a theoretical approach to the construction of artificial biological systems from an engineering perspective. Included in the chapter is a discussion of biological circuits, riboregulators, multi-cellular systems, and directed evolution. The project began during the summer of 2005 during which Cody worked as an intern for Dr. Alterovitz. Following an initial research assignment Cody was invited to co-author a chapter of the textbook. His writing and editing efforts continued throughout the following year and earned him primary authorship.
In combination with his biomedical engineering degree, Cody is also pursuing a degree in music with concentrations in violin and voice. Cody has worked for the Office of Senator Edward Kennedy in Boston and Deloitte Consulting in Cleveland. This summer he will be working in the Case Western laboratory of Gary Wnek, Ph.D. researching the encapsulation of bacteria in electrospun polymer nanofibers.
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