The ultimate aim of the brain is to generate behavior, virtually always enacted through body movements that are deliberate and well-timed. The Neurona...
The challenge of quantum gravity is to build a theory valid over all the scales down to the minuscule Planck scale, which explains how the known phy...
The Biological Complexity Unit studies how stochastic fluctuations influence the dynamics of biological systems and the strategies implemented by biol...
The Evolutionary Genomics Unit uses next-generation sequencing technologies to answer fundamental questions in ecology and evolution. The unit’s mai...
In eukaryotic mitosis, duplicated chromosomes are segregated to daughter cells by a microtubule-based bipolar structure, the mitotic spindle. Proper a...
The marine Eco-Evo-Devo unit uses the extraordinary diversity of coral reef fish to better understand the role of hormones in the evolution of life ...
The Organic and Carbon Nanomaterials Unit explores syntheses of novel functional organic materials and carbon-based nanomaterials with atomically prec...
Research in the Mechanics and Materials Unit is focused on the formulation and analysis of mathematical models for novel systems in the mechanical and...