Welcome to the Elston lab
The Elston lab is interested in understanding the dynamics of complex biological systems, and developing reliable mathematical models that capture the essential components of these systems. The projects in the lab encompass a wide variety of biological phenomena including MAPK signaling in yeast, chemotrophic growth and polarization in yeast, noise in gene regulatory networks, airway surface liquid regulation, and the motor protein dynein. Another focus of our research is understanding the role of molecular level noise in cellular and molecular processes. We have developed the software tool BioNetS to accurately and efficiently simulate stochastic models of biochemical networks.
Graduate students in the lab participate in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, the Applied Mathematics Program and the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program. We are also part of RTG training program: Laboratory and Mathematical Fluid Dynamics that is run through the Applied Mathematics Program here at UNC.
