Developing quantitative models from gene regulatory networks to microbial communities

My motivation comes from identifying patterns and design principles in biological systems. My main projects include building dynamical models of microbial communities, studying neural induction during early embryogenesis of Ciona Intestinalis (collaboration with Yasuo Hitoyoshi’s CNRS lab and Geneviève Dupont at ULB), and setting the first steps of synthetic biology for Archaea together with Wim Vranken en Eveline Peeters at VUB.

 

People

Lana Descheemaeker, Nathaniel Mon Père and Dorota Youmbi (Yaounde University), Sophie de Buyl

 

Publications

Signatures of ecological processes in microbial community time series K. Faust, F. Bauchinger, B. Laroche, S. de Buyl, L. Lahti, A. D. Washburne, D. Gonze, S. Widder, Microbiome (2018).
Bistability in a system of two species interacting through mutualism as well as competition: Chemostat vs. Lotka-Volterra equations, S. Vet, S. de Buyl, K. Faust, J. Danckaert, D. Gonze, L. Gelens, PLOS One (2018).

 

Extra info

http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~sdebuyl/