Stochastic Biology Group

Group Leader: Iain Johnston, University of Bergen

Research • People • Publications • Links/Miscellany • Contact

Links

Info and access
    Research blog and Twitter feed
    Group publications (Google Scholar)
    Stochastic Biology Group GitHub
    Iain's UiB Page
    Free preprints on arXiv
    Free preprints on bioRxiv
    Centre for Maths of Precision Healthcare
Some of our excellent collaborators
    Nick Jones (Imperial)
    Dan Sloan and Amanda Broz (Colorado State)
    George Bassel (Warwick)
    Ben Williams (MIT)
    Jo Poulton (Oxford)
    Julian Hibberd (Cambridge)
    Markus Schwarzlander (Bonn)
    Sara Jabbari (Birmingham)
    Rosemary Dyson (Birmingham)
    David Logan (Angers)
    Tonio Enriquez (CNIC Madrid)
    Joerg Burgstaller (Vienna)
    Ellen Røyrvik (Bergen)
    Ard Louis (Oxford)
    Sebastian Ahnert (Cambridge)
Handy scientific resources and fun
    Mitochondria Move!, Jo's (beautiful) outreach site
    Caladis, our probabilistic calculator
    Our Polyomino Assembler
    The Chlamydomonas Resource Center
    NCBI's Genome section
    MtDNA and ptDNA sequences
    NCBI's Common Taxonomy Tree
    The system size expansion
    Great paper on ABC

Miscellany

Iain's Erdös number is at most 4: Erdös-Peter Salamon-Stephen Berry-Jonathan Doye-Iain

Highlights

News

  • Maria and Shibani join the group as experimental and theoretical postdoctoral researchers respectively... welcome!
  • Olav joins the group as a medical-track PhD project student... welcome!
  • Iain is awarded the Meltzer Prize for research!
  • Kazeem joins the group as a postdoc in biostatistics... welcome!
  • Jessica joins the group as a PhD student... welcome!
  • PNAS paper on evolution of symmetry is featured in New York Times, Salon, Discovery, and more!
  • Yusra and Fabio join the group as MSc students, and Eivind and Florian as BSc students... welcome!
  • Rajneesh wins gold at the CEDAS conference quiz -- congrats!
  • Marcus is awarded an Aker scholarship for further study in the US... congratulations!
  • Rajneesh joins the group as a PhD student... welcome!
  • Iain is awarded a Peder Sather grant for collaboration with Berkeley!
  • Marcus joins the group as a project student... welcome!
  • Iain is PI on a 9m NOK Trond Mohn grant using maths to learn about AMR evolution!
  • Jo wins the Plant Journal talk prize at iPSB 2021 -- congrats!
  • Belén joins the group as a PhD student... welcome!
  • Jo wins the New England Biolabs talk prize at BGRS! Congrats!
  • Arunas joins the group as a visiting fellow... welcome!
  • Kostas and Robert join the group... welcome!
  • Ryan wins the £200 Best Poster prize at UoB PhD poster day!
  • Iain is Co-I on £3.3m NERC grant exploring the effects of elevated CO2 on nutrient cycling in woodland!
  • Iain is PI on a £281k EPSRC Grant developing HyperTraPS!
  • Clare wins the Best Talk prize at UoB Biosciences PhD day!
  • Iain is the Society of Experimental Biology President's Medallist in the Cell category!
  • Iain is PI on a €1.4m ERC StG exploring organelle genome evolution and control!
  • Iain is awarded a Turing Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute!
  • IFLS covers PNAS paper led by George Bassel here (>50K shares); also in Science and the popular press!
  • Clare wins the £1k Research Poster Conference prize at UoB!
  • eBM paper with Nick Jones on vaccines is featured in the popular press, including the Independent, Scientific American, New Scientist, Le Monde, Daily Mirror, Fox News, CNN, Science, ...!
  • Our Cell Systems paper on mtDNA gene loss is Science's #1 favourite news story of the year here!
  • Iain is Co-I on £402k MRC grant using stochastic modelling to explore genome mixing in antimicrobial resistance in the real world!
  • Our MHR work on mtDNA dynamics and human diversity is included in the UK HFEA's latest policy doc on mtDNA therapy (our previous Cell Rep work was also included here)!
  • Hanne wins the £100 poster prize at MitOX!

Some recent and popular papers

(Full publication page under construction; Iain's Google Scholar profile is here)

Some non-technical publications


Funding






Other places

Blog & Media

Our blog contains less technical summaries of our published research articles -- visit it here! We have a Bluesky and Instagram where we post about science from the group and others (and life in Norway). Previously we maintained a Twitter account.

Media coverage

Some media coverage of our research:

Academic coverage

Some coverage of our research in academic press:

Other Research

We've also been involved in some news coverage of some exciting bits of science and policy from outside the group: