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Our interdisciplinary research group consists of the department staff, long term guests and students, all sharing the interest in theoretical biology. Head of the Dept. for Innovative Methods of Computing is Andreas Deutsch.
Research
Our main research interest lies in the development of mathematical models and simulation tools to detect
organizational principles of selected biological systems. We focus on "cellular systems" which possess a multitude of
interaction possibilities whose cooperative interplay guarantees in particular the development of organismic forms. Disorders
in cell interaction can imply diseases and malignant pattern formation (e.g. tumor growth). We work on concrete
interdisciplinary projects on the basis of local, national and international cooperations. Important insights into function and
regulation of biological systems can be expected from the linking of mathematical modelling and computational tools
with biological/medical (in vitro, in vivo and field) data.
A further research field focuses on the exploitation of ideas inspired by self-organizing biological systems
(e.g. immune system) for solving advanced tasks (e.g. search for information) in dynamic technical networks.
Affiliations
The department of Innovative Methods of the Computing is part of the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing at the Technische Universität Dresden.
