Systems & Synthetic Biology

Organization

The division of Systems and Synthetic Biology is part of the new Department of Biology and Biological Engineering.

Systems and Synthetic Biology is headed by Professor Jens Nielsen and is composed of several labs and faculty. Each lab has a leader who is responsible for directing particular research themes. The lab and computational facilities are shared among all members of Systems and Synthetic Biology.

Systems and Synthetic Biology has a central role in LifeScience@Chalmers, which is one of eight Areas of Advance at Chalmers University of Technology. The director of Life Science Engineering Area of Advance is Professor Ivan Mijakovic.

Engqvist Lab			Hohmann Lab
Our research focuses on bioinformatics and experimental high-throughput biochemical characterization of metabolic enzymes.			We are interested in understanding and using the dynamic behavior of signal transduction pathways.

Larsson Lab			Mijakovic Lab
Our lab is focused on understanding the physiology and metabolic regulation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and to apply this knowledge in various metabolic engineering projects.			We work on signaling and regulation in bacterial cells, focusing in particular on regulatory phenomena based on protein phosphorylation.

Nielsen Lab			Petranovic Lab
Our research focus is on systems biology of metabolism. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is our key organism for experimental research.			We are combining methods of molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics and systems biology with the scope to study how cells regulate aging and death pathways.

Zelezniak Lab
We apply best practices of computational biology together with machine learning to understand the behavior of metabolic networks at single and multispecies levels.

Last update: 09-Apr-2018

Latest News

Jens Nielsen received the Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation (and on CfB website)

Jens Nielsen received the Gold Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

Jens Nielsen received the ENI Award 2017 (on CfB website and Twitter )

Jens Nielsen’s presentation at the Molecular Frontiers Symposium in Stockholm available on YouTube

Jens Nielsen's research covered in GP (Göteborgs-Posten)

Leif Väremo’s thesis entitled “Systems Biology of Type 2 Diabetes in Skeletal Muscle” was selected as the best preclinical thesis by the Swedish Diabetes Association.