Dr. Marc Russel Birtwistle Seminar Title: Mechanistic Pharmacodynamic Modeling of Single Mammalian Cells Bio: Marc Birtwistle received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech (2003). For his PhD training in Chemical Engineering (2008), he worked at the University of Delaware with Tunde Ogunnaike and was co-advised by Boris Kholodenko, then at Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, working on cancer systems biology. He then did postdoctoral work under Walter Kolch first at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research and then at Systems Biology Ireland at University College Dublin. He started his independent research career as an Assistant Professor in the Pharmacology Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2012). He then moved his lab to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson as an Associate Professor (2017) and is jointly appointed in the Bioengineering. He co-founded with former students the company Blotting Innovations (2021) which is funded by multiple NIH small business grants. He is now a Full Professor (2024), and received the Murdoch Family endowed professorship recently (2025).