What we do
The Computational Biology Group (CoBi) develops computational models of developmental processes. We place a particular focus on mechanistic 4D image-based in silico models of organogenesis (mouse lung, kidney, pancreas, brain, Drosophila wing and eye) and on the delineation of fundamental mechanisms, such as those that restrict the size of organs and those that maintain the proportions of structures in different-sized embryos. The group runs a wet lab to obtain image data, and collaborates with tissue engineers to build spatially-organized tissue from stem cells, as well as with clinicians to apply its techniques to disease models.
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Main publications 2018
- Boareto M et al.
Positional information encoded in the dynamic differences between neighbouring oscillators during vertebrate segmentation.
BioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/286328 - Menshykau D et al.
Image-based modeling of kidney branching morphogenesis reveals GDNF-RET based turing-type mechanism and pattern-modulating WNT11 feedback.
Nat Commun, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08212-8
