Uri Alon Lab
Uri AlonResearch seeking simple quantitative design principles that explain biological circuits, physiology, disease, tissue dynamics, and aging.
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Robustness
Maintenance of a specified biological function under specified perturbations.
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Core background
Design Principles of Life, Disease, and Aging
Systems biology: finding simplicity inside complexityExplain biological behavior through interacting components and dynamics.
Supports: Robustness
Design Principles of Life, Disease, and Aging
Systems medicine: when a useful circuit creates a diseaseRelate physiological function to circuit design.
Supports: Robustness
Important papers
Nature · 1999
Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis
U. Alon, M. G. Surette, N. Barkai & S. Leibler
Why this matters: Tests robustness of adaptation precision while other dynamic properties vary.
DOI: 10.1038/16483