Greg Conradi Smith

I am a professor in the Department of Applied Science at William & Mary and a lifelong student of mathematical aspects of life sciences, especially neuroscience and cell biology.

My work uses mathematical and computational models to connect cellular mechanisms with experimentally observed biological function, especially in calcium signaling, excitable cells, and computational neuroscience. I often collaborate closely with physiologists to build models of experimental preparations, use those models to make explicit predictions, and test those predictions against future experiment.

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As for me, my bed is made: I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of men’s pride, if you give them time.
The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.
So I am against all big organizations as such, national ones first and foremost; against all big successes and big results; and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way, under-dogs always, till history comes, long after they are dead, and puts them on the top.
William James
Letter to Mrs. Henry Whitman
June 7, 1899