Research group
Jürgen Jost
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Phone (Secretary):
+49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 552
Fax:
+49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 555
Address:
Inselstr. 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Theoretical and Mathematical Biology
Participants
- Nils Bertschinger
- Pierre-Yves Bourguignon (CNRS-MPG Program on Systems Biology)
- Felix Effenberger
- Eckehard Olbrich (coordinator CEEDs)
- Thimo Rohlf
- Bärbel M. R. Stadler
External collaborators
- Olaf Breidbach (Universität Jena)
- Andreas Dress (External Scienti c Member; former director of CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai)
- Thimo Rohlf (Universität Leipzig, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics)
- Klaus Scherrer (CNRS)
- Peter Stadler (External Scienti c Member; Universität Leipzig, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics)
Graduate students
- Jiao Gu
- Julian Hofrichter
- Philipp-Jens Ostermeier (VW Project)
- Johannes Rauh (coordinator VW; cooperation with the Information Theory of Cognitive Systems Group (Nihat Ay))
- Tat Dat Tran
Topics
- Conceptual foundations: Gene, tness, species; evolvability and robustness
- Biological networks, their structure, dynamics and evolution; spectral analysis
- An information geometric framework for population genetics
- Gene regulation and information theory
- Metabolic networks and mathematical tools of network analysis
External funding
- Volkswagenstiftung: "Evolution of networks: Modelling the complexity and robustness of evolving biochemical networks" - joint project with the Information Theory of Cognitive Systems Group (Nihat Ay) and the Bioinformatics group at Leipzig University (Peter Stadler, Konstantin Klemm)
- MPG-CNRS Program on Systems Biology
- Klaus Tschira Stiftung
