Centre for Quantitative Biology

Dramatic progress in biological understanding, coupled with equally exciting advances in experimental techniques and computational analyses, are transforming biology and biomedicine.

Quantitative molecular studies will enable scientists to move from describing cellular phenomena to understanding the design principles and dynamic operation of biological systems. Such a level of comprehending biological processes has major potential for understanding diseases, designing new drugs, treatment and prevention regimes and making bioengineering of industrial organisms more effective and predictable.

Characteristic of this new intellectual landscape of quantitative and systems biology is the need for strong interaction across traditional disciplinary boundaries in research and education.

The aim of the platform ”Quantitative Biology” is to perform research driven by fundamental biological questions of how cells maintain their internal balance and how the disturbance of the underlying control systems leads to disease. The overriding scientific vision is to combine contemporary functional genomics approaches with simultaneous visualisation of processes in the living cell in order to reach a new level of understanding of the dynamic operation of the cell. Studies will address metabolism, signal transduction and damage control systems.

To achieve the research objectives, the programme will be founded on a truly interdisciplinary approach and a research environment composed of Molecular Biologists, Biochemists, Physicists, Mathematicians and Computer Scientists. While advancing fundamental scientific understanding, novel and advanced enabling technologies derived from physics and computational sciences will be developed.

Contact

Prof. Stefan Hohmann
Cell and Molecular Biology
Tel: +46-31-36 08 488 (skype: stefanhohmann)
E-mail: hohmann@gmm.gu.se