The website of the Quantitative Organism Biology [
] lab of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Oeiras, Portugal.
Cells of multicellular organism cooperate to ensure body development and maintenance. They do this in a collective distributed manner, without any master or plan. At we investigate the multilevel mechanisms that give rise to whole organism properties, in search for general principles of the organisation of natural systems and, eventually, the design of artificial systems.
One of our main research interest is the immune system, whose cells collectively ensure body housekeeping and homeostasis, prevent autoimmune diseases, and fight cancer and infections.
We also investigate cell and tissue morphodynamic processes taking place during embryonic development to generate body shapes.
The lab is a natural metamorphosis of the former Theoretical Immunology Group. You can visit the legacy site here.