Research Agenda for the Sciences Cluster

A well thought research agenda could increase the aspect of developing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary researches.

On October 14, the Sciences Cluster is having a discussion about setting a research agenda for the sciences cluster.

Professor Chito Patiño an instructor in the University of the Philippines Cebu openly discussed the details about the upcoming seminar on developing a research agenda.

Professor Patiño said they will be inviting Professor Eduardo Mendoza in the seminar to talk about the Systems Biology and Computational Biology.

Professor Mendoza, is a research scientist of Ludwig Maximillan University in Germany and also an affiliate professor of UP Diliman and UP Manila.

       The seminar is an initiative by the Department of Computer Science to “somewhat catalyse.” 

         Patiño said what the Departments have are researches that are separate out of the different initiatives of the faculty.

         ‘So what I had in mind was probably bring in a common topic or for the cluster to graft its own agenda where are we leading to in terms of research.’  Patiño said.

         The plan’s objective is to organize the different researches and will have a ‘certain theme’ in which the different Professors in the cluster can work together, ‘So it would become an interdisciplinary research’ Patiño said.

Professor Patiño also said the decisions about the topics to be discussed are still tentative as the final decisions will still be up to the Cluster.

By Emma Hernandez