About Us
The Integrative Systems Biology (ISB) is a research group and a research environment working with mathematical modelling
of biological systems. We are located at Linköping University, Sweden - more specifically, at the department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT). However, many of us, including Gunnar Cedersund, the
research director, have double affiliations, and are enrolled in both a theoretical department (e.g. IMT), and an experimental
department (e.g. the Department of Clinical and Experimental Research, IKE, or the Department of Medicine and Health, IMH).
In other words, many who are at ISB sit part of the time embedded in an experimental group, and part of the time at ISB,
where they work with the modelling and theoretical sides of the projects. This is to ensure both that the highest level of
understanding goes into the modelling, and that the newest state-of-the-art methods are being applied to their analysis.
In this fashion, ISB serves as a support function for the entire university that different groups can turn to for advice or for joint supervision or collaboration projects, irrespective of whether they are doing, or thinking of doing, modelling work. At the moment, six
different experimental groups are making use of this functionality, and three different theoretical groups aid in the theoretical
supervision. The long term goal is to convert ISB into a university-funded core facility, but please feel free to contact us already now.
