Connor McShaffrey

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CogSci / Bioengineering PhD Candidate, NSF Graduate Research Fellow (he/him) https://sites.google.com/view/connor-mcshaffrey/bio Indiana University, Vassar '21 🎓 Modeling life and its limits with dynamical systems 🦠 microscopy for fun 🔬

A schematic of the intrinsically generated viability constraint for a glider in Conway's Game of Life.
A schematic of viability space decomposition being applied to a single-cell model with existential constraints.
Two depictions of a bounded viability region which defines where in state space a cell can still be considered to exist.
A schematic of a death event in a multicellular system, where the loss of one cell results in a collapse in the dimensionality of the system. Each cell's essential variables have their ranges capped by viability constraints.