The FRIAS School of Life Sciences – LifeNet focuses its research on the “biology of complex systems – systems biology". Its multidisciplinary, system-oriented approach ranges from mathematics and physics to biology and medicine. Mathematical modelling is used to create hypotheses, which, in turn, are validated using experiments in high-throughput biological systems (genomic, proteomic and metabolomic methods) and imaging technologies. This system-oriented approach is designed to improve prediction of normal functions in plants, animals and in humans. Similarly, the approach can be used to disclose causes and progress of illnesses and to assess how successful different treatment options will be.
Three Junior Fellows, seven Freiburg-based Internal Senior Fellows, eight internationally renowned External Senior Fellows and 17 graduate students and postdoctoral scientists are currently researching systems biology projects at LifeNet.
| 17th European Bioenergetics Conference EBEC 2012 brings together researchers from around the world to present their latest achievements in the area of molecular and cellular bioenergetics Date: 15th - 20th September 2012 |
- FRIAS Workshop with Felice Frankel on Graphic Visualisation held in April 2012. Read more >>>
- An international team of scientists led by LifeNet Director Leena Bruckner-Tuderman has identified a new heritable disorder. The findings have now been published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Read more >>>
- Scientists around LifeNet Director Jens Timmer start "MIP-DILI", a project to develop improved medication aiming to avoid drug-induced liver injury. Read more >>>
- Internal Senior Fellow Ralf Reski develops peat moss as novel biological indicator to detect air pollution. Read more >>>
- LifeNet Director Leena Bruckner-Tuderman publishes new results on 'natural healing' of genetically determined skin diseases. Read more >>>
- The team around Internal Senior Fellow Ralf Baumeister elucidates a new mechanism in the sensation of noxious heat. The work, published at PloS One, suggests that C. elegans uses different mechanisms for the perception of heat as back-up strategies to guarantee fast and efficient responses to potentially detrimental stimuli. Read more>>>
- External Senior Fellow Celso Grebogi becomes a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Read more >>>
- The latest edition of Life Matters Newsletter 15 February 2012 has been published. Read more >>>
- A podcast of the 11th Hermann Staudinger Lecture with Nobel Laureate Werner Arber (Basel) is now available online. Read more >>>
