Uncovering universal behaviour in biological systems

ResearchPod

English - February 24, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MB
Science Technology science research outreach education stem learning academic technology impact scicomm Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: Digital transformation in Financial Services: The age of Fintech

Next Episode: Learning and Memory: How memories are encoded in the brain of the fruit fly

Deciphering the patterns of nature is something that has occupied curious minds for countless generations, from swarms of bugs to the flight of birds to the movement of your bodies own cells.

Prof Andrea Cavagna of the Institute for Complex Systems leads a research group bringing together the worlds theoretical physics and experimental biology, building mathematical models of natural systems and uncovering the universal laws that underly the organisation structure of life.

Read the original paper on swarm behaviours: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.268001