Research Lines. Biocomplexity
Biocomplexity
Research Lines
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The general topic of this line is the study of some biological systems, mostly under the prism of modern Systems Biology, i.e. from the tenet that most observed behaviors in living systems stem from complex, emergent interactions among its constituents.
Present research topics include modeling and simulation of neuronal systems, with special emphasis in stochastic effects and synchronization properties, drug transport and absorption, population dynamics, phylogenetic networks and ecological structure and dynamics, including growth, aggregation processes and spatial effects, with special focus on clonal plants and savannahs.
Methods of complex network analysis, stochastic simulations, and the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems, such as delayed coupled systems, are used thoroughly.
- A new model for pattern formation in coral reefs
- Lagrangian Flow Networks: Theory and applications
- Fairy circles under the sea: Pattern formation in meadows of marine plants
- Birth, death, diffusion and repulsion: a variety of pattern forming instabilities arising from non-local interactions
- Networks of fluid transport in the ocean
- Competitive patterns of interacting random walkers
- The reduction of plankton biomass induced by mesoscale stirring: a modelling study in the Benguela upwelling
- Mobility and flow effects across biological scales
- Generalized synchronization of nonlinear oscillators: How to understand and how to detect?
- Heterogeneity effects on the synchronization and entrainment of coupled circadian oscillators
- Constructive effects of diversity in the synchronisation of a model for the circadian clock in mammals
- Savanna-Fire Model: Combined effects of tree-tree establishment competition and spatially explicit fire on the spatial pattern of trees in savannas
- Synchronization without correlation
- International Workshop on Synchronization and Multiscale Complex Dynamics in the Brain
- Far in space and yet in synchrony: a neuronal mechanism for zero-lag long-range synchronization in the brain
- Dynamics of mutually delay-coupled systems: From Lasers to Neurons
- Frigatebirds follow Lagrangian Coherent Structures (alternative title: Flying on top of ocean highways)
- Clusters, exclusion and patterns in models of species competition
- Ecosystem modelling of seagrasses patch dynamics
- Pattern formation in a model of bugs that live, reproduce, and cluster
- Scale-free Brain Functional Networks
- Genetic Similarity Networks in populations and in metapopulations
- Effect of the topology and delay in a neuronal network
- Universal branching in phylogenetic trees
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