Cheryl is a Research Biologist at Carnegie Mellon University. Cheryl and Natasa began working together as iGEM advisors in 2013 and have expanded their collaborations through the DARPA Big Mechanism and World Modelers programs. Biologists are constantly trying new tools that have the potential to improve our understanding of complex systems, and the standardized representation and computational modeling approaches being developed by the Melody Lab are a great contribution.