Latest News

Jul 2009 The Modelling Monkeys Go Ape!

Jul 2009 Emma gives a great talk at LASR 2009 - well done!

Jun 2009 Saul’s paper on chaos detection is accepted for publication in PLoSONE

Mar 2009 Our latest paper on Zernike Moments get published in the Journal of Computational Biology

Jan 2009 Our paper in Biology & Chemistry (project led by Grant Wheeler) hits the news!

Jan 2009 Derin joins the group to solve all our problems with space - welcome to the group!

Dec 2008 Emma moves on to her next rotation...

Nov 2008 Richard gives three talks on chaos and his car breaks down - this is an unwanted demonstration of the butterfly effect, thank you.

Nov 2008 Sebastian joins the group (joint PhD student with Drs G Wagner & K Tyler, UEA) - welcome!

Nov 2008 Scott takes up his new position as Lecturer in Computational Biology - congratulations from all of us!

Oct 2008 Emma joins the group for her first rotation project - welcome!

Oct 2008 Richard chairs the Annual Science Meeting and yet it was a great success

Sep 2008 Sergey’s shampoo was stolen again and he therefore returns to Germany after a highly productive and very successful project - well done and thank you!

Aug 2008 Sergey is back again for a summer practical

July 2008 Richard & Scott are back as invited lecturers on the prestigious EU Mathematics in Plant Science intensive programme in Paris

July 2008 Paper on Plant Pathway Bioinformatics accepted in Plant Cell

June 2008 Carl & Scott’s work on continuous valued Zernike representations accepted in the Journal of Computational Biology

June 2008 Richard gets an EEE and really likes it.

May 2008 Saul’s work on chaos gets accepted for publication in PNAS!

Jan 2008 BBSRC Tools & Resources Grant awarded to study the use of Zernike Moments

Jan 2008 Scott & Richard’s paper on Benford’s law accepted for Bioinformatics

Dec 2007 Lora passes her PhD viva with success - congratulations!

Dec 2007 Saul & Scott participate in the Inaugrial Mathematics in Biology in Nottingham

Dec 2007 Another Faculty of 1000 recommended paper (3.2) for Richard & Abdullah’s (from Janet Thornton’s group) project on shape variation in protein binding pockets

Dec 2007 Prasad joins the group again to help out with our Zernike Moment work

Nov 2007 Richard & Scott voted best lecturers on the below EU workshop

Oct 2007 Scott gives a great talk at the ASM - Well done!

Oct 2007 Carl Roberts (UEA) joins the group to work on the mathematics of shape fluctuations

Jul 2007 Richard & Scott invited lecturers on the prestigious EU Mathematics in Plant Science intensive programme in Paris

Summary of Research Activities

The group employs a variety of mathematical and computational techniques to address problems of biological relevance for plant and microbial research. A particular emphasis is on signal processing aspects of biological problems, such as molecular recognition or calcium signaling. The approaches are highly interdisciplinary ranging from standard numerical, physical and chemical techniques to methods of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational geometry, computer vision, evolutionary algorithms and especially information theory. We have expertise in shape analysis, optimization, graph theory, statistics, protein structure, ODEs, PDEs, and algorithm design and implementation in most high-level programming languages.

Current Projects

Mathematical Modeling of Root Hair Growth

Bayesian Integration for Protein Function Prediction

Transcriptional Control of Nitrogen Fixation

Shape Description & Molecular Recognition

Non-linear Data Analysis of Calcium Spiking