Description: This site shocasts the work done at the Peleg Lab, CU Boulder
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BioFrontiers Institute & CS Department at CU Boulder
Our research is aimed at understanding how organisms change their micro-environment to buffer themselves against harmful environmental fluctuations, while still allowing for exchange of energy, matter and information with the macro-world. This includes protein assemblies that remain intact under varying external mechanical and chemical stimuli, beetles that navigate using volatile celestial cues, and honeybee clusters that change their morphology to both withstand mechanical stresses, and to regulate their
In active biological-physical systems, disorder could be a plus: while ordered systems are stable and predictable, they leave little room for exploration – a crucial survival mechanism for organisms in varying environments. What is the optimal level of disorder suitable for each system? To address this, we conceptualize organisms as living-matter, use various numerical and analytical techniques, and maintain a strong connection to experiments, either by conducting them ourselves or via collaborations. We e