Dynamical Systems Biology lab

Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Living organisms have evolved over billions of years in the presence of complex and changing environments. One of the best ways, if not the only way, to respond to such variable conditions is for organisms to be dynamical themselves. Over the last few decades, advances in computational neuroscience and machine learning have shown us that dynamical behavior enables efficient mechanisms of complex information processing and learning. The goal of our lab is to study and characterize the dynamics of living systems, and use this knowledge to understand how such dynamics underlies natural computation in a changing and weakly predictable world.

The phenomena that we study center around spatio-temporal self-organization and include oscillations, synchronization, excitability, and noise-induced effects, among other behavior. We study living systems across the tree of life, including bacteria, mammalian cells and tissues, the immune system, and the brain. In these systems we explore processes such as gene regulation, intra- and inter-cellular signaling, stress responses, cellular decision making, cell-fate differentiation, and neuronal oscillations.

 

 

Dynamical Systems Biology lab

Systems Bioengineering

Department of Medicine and Life Sciences

PRBB building (Mar campus)
Doctor Aiguader, 88
08003 Barcelona

 +34 933160882
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