Center für Systembiologie Dresden (CSBD)

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Our joint center between the two MPIs and the TU Dresden has the mission to study integrated biological systems and processes using computational and theoretical approaches in close collaboration with experimentalists. The center consists of computer scientists, engineers, physicists, and mathematicians. In tight cooperation with experimental groups at the nearby MPI-CBG we have and continue to develop a quantitative approach to biology based in part on state of the art microscopy techniques and computer simulations. The MPI-CBG has the research theme "from cells to tissues”. Understanding the principles of cellular and tissue organization requires the study of collective effects. Molecules organize collectively in cells and cells organize collectively in tissues. Our center investigates the principles underlying system behaviors and spatiotemporal processes. For example the question how 10’s of thousands of cells coordinate their behavior in space and time to form tissues of a given form and function. We develop new microscopy techniques and automated image analysis software to obtain quantitative information about molecular components in space and time. We also develop new theoretical and computational approaches and biophysical models to identify key mechanisms underlying biological systems.


The Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD) is an initiative of the Max-Planck Society in collaboration with the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), one of the eleven German Excellence Universities. It was started in 2010 by the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) with the generous support of the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts, the BMBF, and the Klaus Tschira Stiftung. The center was built on the joint interdisciplinary research program between MPI-CBG and MPI-PKS.

The center will be housed in a new building on the MPI-CBG campus in the immediate vicinity of the University Clinic, the Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD), the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of TUD, the Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB), and the B CUBE. The ground breaking for the building was in Fall of 2014 and the building will be ready for occupancy in March 2017 at which time it will house the various groups above along with additional independent research groups. The building will feature optics suites for custom microscopy, server rooms for our state-of-the-art compute cluster, an immersive visualization cave, and 10G cabling throughout. The center is further being connected to the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing of TUD through a 10x10G redundant link to provide fast access to their high-performance compute clusters with tens of thousands of cores.

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