Synthetic & Systems Biology
We are aiming to understand the dynamics of life from molecular level interactions using systems and control theory and to develop computational and analytical methods for improving human health and life quality. We are working with various research groups in the University including Advanced Medical Diagnostics & Lab-on-a-chip group and Cell & Tissue Engineering in the Biomedical Engineering Division and Beatson Institute of Cancer Research.
Molecular biology considers dynamical interactions among different species of molecules. The interactions are stochastic, nonlinear and discrete. Our research is concentrated on the development of efficient modelling, simulation and analysis tools.
Our research is divided into the following core activities:
- Synthetic cell implementation and control using nano-technology
- Modelling & robustness analysis of large-scale stochastic biomolecular networks
- Biomolecular network inferring
- Human control systems