CELL DYNAMICS

The Center for Cell Dynamics fosters research in cell and developmental biology that fuses experimental approaches with realistic, mechanistic computational models. The computational pursuit focuses both on high-resolution imaging methods for visualizing the interactions of molecular building blocks, and on creating computer simulations that capture systems-level properties of gene networks, the cytoskeleton, and cellular interaction, on the basis of known properties of the molecular building blocks of life. The experimental pursuit aims to develop and ground mechanistic models through detailed observation of cells and embryos, and to test predictions of those models. The Center is organized around several inter-related research projects in which the fusion of experimental and computational approaches will lead toward improved comprehension of fundamental biological processes, ranging from how webs of interactions among subsets of cellular macromolecules animate living cells to how the..

Primary location: Friday Harbor United States