Westmann Lab of Systems and Synthetic Evolutionary Biology
Abstraction of adaptive landscapes of bacterial systems
We explore how living systems process information through gene regulation, and how these mechanisms evolve and diversify. By combining synthetic biology, high-throughput experiments, and evolutionary theory, our group builds large-scale models to reveal the principles that shape regulatory systems and to re-engineer them for new functions. Our current focus is on the evolution and engineering of bacterial communication systems.
