The Systems Biology Group is part of the Life Science Division at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. The Systems Biology Group is headed by Professor Jens Nielsen and is composed of several labs and several faculty members. Each lab has a leader  who is responsible for directing particular research themes. The lab and computational facilities as well as the equipment are shared among all members of the Systems Biology Group. The Systems Biology Group also plays a central role as the largest group in LifeScience@Chalmers, which is one of eight Areas of Advance at Chalmers University of Technology. The director of Life Science Area of Advance is Professor Jens Nielsen and the deputy director is Professor Christer Larsson.  NEWS The Nielsen group demonstrates how systems biology can be used to map molecular effects of the diet in different tissues. In a recent study it was found that a herring based diet influences cholesterol biosynthesis in the liver and protein turnover in the muscle. The Nielsen group is featured in Ny Teknik due to a new invention on production of biodiesels in yeast. To protect the IP the inventors has filed a patent application. Research about systems biology and industrial production of perfurmes using yeast as a cell factory from the Nielsen lab is featured in the National Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Fredrik Karlsson has been awarded the John Eriksson Medal for being the best student in the Biotech MSc program at Chalmers   Last update: 29-Aug-2010 Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Systems Biology, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden