• Butterflies and rainbows

    I recently followed my wife to a conference in Denver and I attended a hospitality event. In making casual conversation with someone at the event, the conversation followed the typically script: Casual conversant (CC): “What do you do?”  Me: “I’m a professor” CC: “Oh what in?” Me: “Chemical and Biomedical Engineering” CC scrunches up their…

  • Paper Tales – Klinke DJ PLoS One 2008

    At Entelos, I saw first hand that developing mathematical models of disease requires significant investment before you have a simulation platform that you can market to pharma. These PhysioLab models were complicated and required multiple PhD-level engineers and life scientists working elbow to elbow for 6 months to a year or more before we had…

  • Paper tales – Klinke DJ Journal of Theoretical Biology 2006

    While my graduate work was rule-based modeling of petrochemical-related chemistries, I felt that following graduation I was more interested in applying these computational approaches to biological problems instead of petrochemistry. After a brief post-doc at Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, I landed a position as a Biosystems Engineer at Entelos, Inc in Menlo Park, California…

  • Kanna Kabinet

    Kanna Kabinet

    In the interest of creating a home for some Japanese kannas that protects them from fluctuations in humidity, I decided to build a small cabinet to fit about 6 kannas for finish planing in the space between the bigger hanging tool chest and a side wall. To tie in the design with the larger cabinet,…

  • Tea box in sweet gum

    Tea box in sweet gum

    In the interest to try full blind dovetails, I decided to make a small box to house some tea packets in a 3 by 1 arrangement. I used a piece of sweetgum rescued from the local municipal dump pile for urban logs. It seems that most of the logs are destined for firewood. However as…