Inhibitory Interactions Promote Frequent Bistability Among Competing Bacteria
Systems Biology researchers explore the importance of community history and assembly when considering microbial communities in a paper in Nature Communications.
Tag: complex biological systems
A living system, like any complex entity, is more than the sum of its parts. It can be as simple as a virus or as complex as an ecosystem. Researchers at WID aspire to gain an understanding of how such systems function, as well as how they adapt to and shape their environments over different time scales.
An interdisciplinary group of engineers, computer scientists, physicists, and evolutionary biologists take a multi-pronged approach to understanding living systems. We develop and combine experimental and computational methods to study diverse problems, ranging from interactions between organisms (e.g., between hosts and pathogens, and within diverse microbial communities) and interaction networks within organisms (e.g., regulatory and metabolic interactions). A common theme to complex biological systems research at WID is to view these systems through the lens of evolution.
John Yin: “Arrow In, Arrow Out: Rumination on the Origins of Life and Nurturing Research Collaborations”
John Yin spoke at the Discovery Seminar Series in January, 2016, offering his perspective on the origins of life, dynamic stability, and developing collaborations.
Systems Biology Researchers Study Co-infections of Viable and Defective Viruses
The paper, titled ‘High-throughput single-cell kinetics of virus infections in the presence of defective interfering particles’, was published in the current issue of the Journal of Virology.
Origins of Life… and John Yin
John Yin, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Systems Biology theme leader at WID, is beginning an interdisciplinary initiative to examine the origins of life with new methods, approaches, and perspectives.
Digging into a Biological Tool Patent
Patent secured by the Systems Biology Theme members enhances single cell research.
Astrobiology Conference Finds Life at Discovery Building
Transdisciplinary science was on display in the Discovery building July 19-23 at the Astrobiology Graduate Conference, where graduate students and post-docs from disparate disciplines and various universities came together to discuss life in our Universe.
With New Tools, Researchers Aim to Broaden Understanding of Toxins’ Effect on the Body
Through an Environmental Protection Agency initiative, WID researchers are playing a key role in learning how toxins impact human health and the environment.
UW-Madison Researchers Sift and Winnow Data Faster with Advanced Computing Initiative
The Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) links researchers and computing resources to maximize productivity.
New Theory Suggests Alternate Path Led to Rise of the Eukaryotic Cell
A bold new idea of how the eukaryotic cell and, by extension, all complex life came to be is giving scientists an opportunity to reexamine some of biology’s key dogma.
The Next Bright Idea: Microbe-Powered ‘Biobulb’ Earns WID Students Spot in Popular Science Magazine Competition
Creating energy solutions for communities throughout the world poses serious challenges, but a group of WID Frontier Fellows thinks its alternative idea has a bright future.
‘Starry Night’ or Viral Infection?
Resembling a dotted, night sky constellation, fluorescent speckled cells help Systems Biology researchers track a viral spread.