EMBO Member
Alfonso Martinez Arias
EMBO 2007
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Self organization of biological systems
My group uses embryonic stem cells to understand how gene regulatory networks are decoded by cells to build tissues and organs. We do this by combining molecular and cell biology with approaches borrowed from physics and engineering.
Keywords
Cell signalling / development / Wnt & Notch / stem cells / noise / synthetic biology / tissue engineering