The aim of the Computational Science Lab is to pioneer new computational approaches, methods and tools to enable, make and accelerate fundamental advances in science in areas of societal importance.
Research Groups
Biological Computation Group
The Group is focused on the development and advancement of a new field that aims to transform our understanding of biology by considering biological systems as living computation, and to develop the techniques needed to design and program computation in living systems.
Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group
The Group is focused on enabling, making and accelerating fundamental advances in our understanding of, and ability to predict the impact of future changes to, the global climate and ecological systems and processes: Earth’s life support system.
Hot-off-the-Press
Neil Dalchau awarded prestigious 2011 Tansley Medal More
Derek Tittensor co-author of new study published in PLoS Biology that revises estimate of how many species there are. More Paper
Andrew Phillips named as one of world's top innovators under 35. More
Misc.
Special feature on the Computational Science Lab in Science.
Stephen Emmott featured in Nature Medicine.
Greg McInerny's scientific visualisations exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Yaki Setty, Diana Dalfó, Dorota Z. Korta, E. Jane Albert Hubbard, and Hillel Kugler, A model of stem cell population dynamics: in-silico analysis and in-vivo validation, in Development, vol. 139, pp. 47 - 56, January 2012
- Lindsay A Turnbull, Christopher D Philipson, Drew W Purves, and AndOthers, (in press) Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation, in Ecology, Ecological Society of America, 2012
- Matthew Lakin, Simon Youssef, Filippo Polo, Stephen Emmott, and Andrew Phillips, Visual DSD: a design and analysis tool for DNA strand displacement systems, in Bioinformatics, vol. 27, no. 22, pp. 3211–3213, Oxford University Press, November 2011
- Neil Dalchau, Andrew Phillips, Leonard D Goldstein, Mark Howarth, Luca Cardelli, Stephen Emmott, Tim Elliott, and Joern M Werner, A peptide filtering relation quantifies MHC class I peptide optimization, in PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. e1002144, PLoS, 13 October 2011
- Silvia Caldararu, Paul Palmer, and Drew Purves, Inferring Amazon leaf demography from satellite observations of leaf area index, in Biogeosciences Discussions, European Geosciences Union, October 2011
Biological Computation Group
Head: Andrew Phillips
James Brown
Jonathan Cooper
Neil Dalchau
Sara-Jane Dunn
Alex Fletcher
Katy Gray
Hillel Kugler
Chris McEwan
James Osborne
Michael Pedersen
Fillipo Polo
Boyan Yordanov
Tim Rudge*
Alistair Bailey*
Adminstrator: Carissa Bradford
Computational Science Laboratory
Microsoft Research
Needham Building
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Computational Ecology & Environmental Science Group
Head: Drew Purves
Robin Freeman
Mike Harfoot
Lucas Joppa
Vassily Lyutsarev
Greg McInerny
Tim Newbold
Andy Roberts
Matthew Smith
Derek Tittensor
Mark Vanderwel
Sadia Ahmed*
Mindy Siefert*
Ben Dean*
Holly Kirk*
Lara Salido*
Isabel Rosa*
Emily Lines*
Sylvia Caldararu*
Nikee Groot*
*PhD students
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- We are currently looking for outstanding scientists both for permanent and post-doctoral positions in the Biological Computation Group and in the Computational Ecology & Environmental Science Group
