WHAT WE'RE INTO
Plants are stationary, living, information-processing organisms which use physical laws and biological mechanisms to alter their shapes and dynamically respond to their ever-changing environments. We aim to understand how plants control and compute as a growing distributed system, performing complex navigational tasks, how they carry out mechanical work to drive the evolving geometry, and how complex bio-chemical networks control these systems, enabling to encode spatial and temporal information. We adopt a statistical physics approach, inferring underlying microscopic processes from observed macroscopic responses, and carry out experiments in house.
OUR TOOLBOX
EXPERIMENTS
We observe complex macroscopic responses of plants to diverse stimuli
STATISTICAL PHYSICS
We infer microscopic stochastic processes from macroscopic responses
MATHEMATICAL MODELING
We use minimal modeling and numerical simulations to study observations
RESEARCH AT A GLANCE
"Ask not what physics can do for biology - ask what biology can do for physics" // Ulam
FUNDING
FIND US
The lab is opening up this fall, looking for curious and enthusiastic students!
Britannia Building, Rooms 516+517
School of Plant Science and Food Security
Tel Aviv, Israel
email: jazz at tauex.tau.ac.il
office phone: +972-3-6409846
lab phone: +972-3-6409845
twitter: @MerozLab
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