Department of Biophysics and Department of Physics
Welcome to the Wood Lab at the University of Michigan!
We use a combination of theory, computation, and experiment in hopes of achieving a systems-level quantitative understanding of biological systems on multiple length and time scales.
We are interested in quantitative biology and the dynamics of complex systems, with particular emphasis on systems dominated by heterogeneity, stochasticity, strong coupling, or rare events.
Our lab studies population dynamics and multi-drug resistance using different experimental model systems, including bacteria such as E. coli, E. faecalis (above), and S. aureus as well as multiple types of human cancers.
Using theoretical tools from statistical physics, applied math, and engineering, we study biological systems ranging from intracellular metabolic networks in bacteria to populations of cancer cells.
