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Leibler, Stanislas |
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The Rockefeller University |
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Physics |
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Leibler's elegant experiments and theoretical analyses have led to new fundamental insights into biological robustness, structural dynamics, and population biology. His insightful questions often challenge the existing paradigms of biological dynamics; he asks and seeks answers about the deepest issues of biology and its mathematical description. |
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Research Interests
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The Laboratory of Living Matter, headed by Stanislas Leibler at the Rockefeller University, is interested in collective phenomena taking place in biological systems. Collective phenomena involving many interacting components can be observed and studied on different levels of organization, ranging from assemblies of molecules to assemblies of cells. Leibler and his collaborators strive to understand quantitatively such phenomena in simple microbial systems. After contributing to the system description of cellular assemblies and biochemical networks as well as to the creation of synthetic genetic networks, they are now focusing their efforts on the investigation of microbial populations. In particular, the laboratory is continuing its quantitative studies of collective survival strategies in bacteria (such as bacterial persistence, sporulation or non-genetic behavioral individuality) and of population dynamics in closed microbial ecosystems. These experimental studies are performed in parallel with related theoretical work done at the Rockefeller University and at the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study. |
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