Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems

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The Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems (MMLS) program, a joint endeavor of the Mathematics & Physical Sciences and Life Sciences divisions of the Simons Foundation, aims to foster a culture of theory-experiment collaboration in the life sciences similar to that prevailing in the physical sciences by supporting a community of scientists whose work breaks new conceptual or theoretical ground while relating closely to experiment in the life sciences. A broad spectrum of basic research is supported, ranging from genomics to cellular-level issues of organization, regulation, signaling and dynamics, to the properties of organisms and ecosystems. Neuroscience and evolution are also of interest. We also support the Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines at the National Center for Biological Sciences, a division of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

News

How Lucy Colwell Finds Never-Before-Seen Proteins

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April 9, 2020

Simons-Supported Researchers and Advisory Board Member Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2019

M. Lisa Manning, MMLS Investigator and PI in the Cracking the Glass Problem Collaboration, Awarded American Physical Society’s Maria Goeppert Mayer Prize

October 30, 2017

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Conferences

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2019 Conference on Theory & Biology

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April 11–12, 2019

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2018 Conference on Theory & Biology

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April 13, 2018

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2017 Conference on Theory & Biology

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April 7, 2017

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2016 Conference on Theory & Biology

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April 22, 2016

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2015 Conference on Theory & Biology

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April 17, 2015

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2014 Conference on Theory & Biology

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April 11, 2014

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Simons Investigators Awardees

Simons Investigators in the MMLS program were appointed for five years.

2019

Benjamin Machta

Yale University

Caroline Uhler

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2018

Claudia Clopath

Imperial College London

Lucy Colwell

University of Cambridge

Eleni Katifori

Senior Research Scientist, Center for Computational Biology

Daniela Witten

University of Washington

2017

Arvind Murugan

University of Chicago

David Schwab

Northwestern University

Aryeh Warmflash

William Marsh Rice University

Daniel Weissman

Emory University

2016

Surya Ganguli

Director, Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation

Kirill Korolev

Boston University

Madhav Mani

Northwestern University

Lisa Manning

Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem

2015

Michael Desai

Harvard University

Andrew Mugler

Purdue University

James O’Dwyer

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014

Paul François

McGill University

Oskar Hallatschek

University of California, Berkeley

Pankaj Mehta

Boston University

Olga Zhaxybayeva

Dartmouth College

Targeted Grants Awardees

The following scientists were awarded a Targeted Grant in the MMLS program.

2016

Vijay Balasubramanian

Principal Investigator, It from Qubit: Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information

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Sam Brown

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Howard Weiss

Georgia Institute of Technology

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William Ratcliff

Georgia Institute of Technology

Jane Kondev

Brandeis University

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Simon Levin

Princeton University

Pankaj Mehta

Boston University

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Alvaro Sanchez

Yale University

2015

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Christopher Klausmeier

Michigan State University

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Elena Litchman

Michigan State University

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M Cristina Marchetti

Syracuse University

Massimo Vergassola

Professor, École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS)

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Kalin Vetsigian

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Stanislas Leibler

Rockefeller University

2014

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Terence Hwa

University of California, San Diego

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Boris Shraiman

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Daniel E. Gottschling

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center