Bits for Biology – Simulating the Development of an Organism

Typ Poster

Studiengang / Lehrstuhl / Firma
Computational Modeling and Simulation

Präsentator Lutz Brusch

Projektbeteiligte Jörn Starruß, Diego Jahn, Robert Müller, Michael Kücken, Andreas Deutsch, Stan Maree and Lutz Brusch

Website https://morpheus.gitlab.io

A grand challenge in the life sciences is cracking the code of biological self-organisation and morphogenesis, as started by Alan Turing with his work on "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis". We here present Morpheus, a user-friendly modeling and simulation framework for spatio-temporal dynamics in multi-scale and multi-cellular systems. In collaboration with Stan Marée from Cardiff University, we're applying Morpheus to Turing patterns and fruiting body formation in a social microorganism termed Dicty. Dicty is a model organism in the life sciences for studying the transition from uni-cellular to multi-cellular life. Our simulation results yield insights into Turing's challenge of morphogenesis and provide a new perspective on the art piece "Biomorphe Skulpturen" by Andre Tempel in the APB foyer.