The Symposium on Systems Biology: Integrative, Comparative, and Multi-Scale Modeling has received additional funding that will provide for substantial travel grants for students and post-docs. Therefore, we are extending both the travel grant deadline and the abstract deadline until Apr ...
Every year our group will go to a small town named Oberwiesenthal in the south Germany for a group holiday. It is a yearly opportunity for people to chat with each other and give informal talks about their own research. It is also the time to have fun: going ski, hanging a ...
Today I present a Physics Review Letter paper named Cell fate as a high-dimensional attractor of a complex gene regulatory network in the journal club of our group. To my surprise, the response is quite polarized. For some people, they take for granted that cel ...
The Campus Berlin-Dahlem with the Free University of Berlin (FU), the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG) harbors a significant number of groups working at the interface of life sciences (molecular biology, g ...
Albert Abraham Michelson is the first American to win Nobel prize. When he was asked why he wanted to do such a difficult job to measure the speed of light, he said:It is just the great fun to do it. Yes, for many scientists, it is the fun of being a craftsman of science which drive them so ...
Why we cooperate? Since every living creature is living for its own purpose and benefits, it is very hard to believe that actually cooperation can naturally happen in nature. However, spontaneous cooperation is essential for the first multi-cellular organism to exit ...
Max Perutz: interview http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/1 A young man in his 17 claimed that only winning a Nobel prize can justify his career change from inheriting his father's textile factory to studying Chemistry. A researcher spent 22 years to elucidate one protein's structu ...
Literature review is a basic skills for an active researcher. However, it could be very time-consuming even if you only follow a few important journals in biophysics. So in our group, we have a collective Journal scan - Everybody makes contributions, everybody gets rewards. We assign the imp ...