The Art of Theoretical Biology

Franziska Matthäus studied biophysics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and received her PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She worked as a postdoc, group leader and junior professor in Heidelberg and Würzburg and now holds a professor position at the Goethe University Frankfurt, affiliated with the Frankfurt Institute for Applied Sciences (FIAS). She is interested in the chemical and mechanical regulation of cell motility, and uses a combination of image and data analysis as well as mathematical models to better understand how collective behavior or patterns emerge from internal regulation and cell-cell interaction.

Sebastian Matthäus studied communication design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. Since 2006 he is founder and head of the graphic design firm called "Grenzfarben" in Berlin, Germany. He is an expert in illustration & animation, works for large German newspapers and firms, but also supports interactive exhibitions.

Dr. Sarah Anne Harris is Associate Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Leeds. She has always been interested in understanding how biological systems perform their amazing functions within the confines of the laws of physics. While her undergraduate degree is in Physics from the University of Oxford, she then obtained her PhD from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham in 2001. She is now in the Theoretical Physics group in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and part of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology. Her research uses high performance supercomputing to model how biological molecules move and interact.

Thomas Hillen, Dr. rer. nat., is Professor and Associate Chair Research at the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta in Canada. He studied at the Universities of Münster and Tübingen in Germany, before he moved to Canada in 2001. He has published five textbooks and over 80 journal publications. Currently, Dr. Hillen is President of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society (CAIMS). Dr. Hillen’s research is focused on mathematical modelling of cancer and cancer treatment. He is motivated to use advanced mathematical methods for the common good.

From the content: The Deadly Beauty of Cancer
Cellular Connections
Annealing Party
Cells on the Ferris Wheel
The Magic Pants that Always Fit
Racing Triangles
Rising Dragons
Henri in Wonderland
Peak of the Iceberg
Guiding Spiral
The Hidden Beauty of Roots
The Beauty of a Beast
The Ghost
Lymph Node Landscapes
Breezing Drops
Labyrinths: Exotic Patterns of Cortical Activity
Mammalian Lipidomic Network
One Step at a Time
How a Tumor Gets its Spots
Patchwork Patterns
Cancer Warfare
Collective Decision Making
Cell Simulation in Blossom
Semblance of Heterogeneity
Can we Crack Cancer?
Dance with Predators and Prey
Knitting Proteins
Nothing Stands Still in the Streams of Life
Restless Mind Wandering
Morphological Echoes
Cancer as a Killer Tsunami
Cells Are Watching You
Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess...
Spectral Forms and Cosmic Storms
Antigenic Explosion
Crop Circles of Cancer
Scalp
Coupled Invasion
Lost in the Cells
Becoming Important
Community Matters
Acidic Dance
Flocking, Swirling and Spinning Stars in a Cell
A Mosaic of Cancer and Liver Tissue
Cell Firework
Pulled in Line
Convergence
Arctic Breeze
Extracellular Galaxies
Oriental Landscape Painting by Predator Species
Life is Lived on the Edge
Cellular Swarms in Cellular Automata
Bumps, Ridges, and no Flows in Vein
Growing Orbs / Mingled Metabolism
Out of the Comfort Zone
Green Protein Interaction Wheel
Vincent van Gogh's Autocatalysis
Clonal Inferno
What Lies Beneath (the Heartbeat)
Tree of Life
Tower of Life
Clone Wars - The Immune System Awakens
Modelled Cell
CD196-
Tumor Composition Depends on the Viewing Angle
Poincaré's Homoclinic Horror
E A S (Evolving Asteroid Starships)
Interacting Spider Webs
Heart Cells are aMAZEing
Actin Spring
Dynamical Diggers