How does that relate to computational stem cell biology?
In Germany, there is a scientific discipline all about various quantitative methods in medicine, which used to be just statistics, then came epidemiology, then computational methods. At pretty much every German medical school, there are departments that focus on these methods and that explains the long name. All of this is beginning to change as approaches like systems biology and bioinformatics play a role and institutes are moving from medical informatics, which is about imaging and electronic patient records, over to bioinformatics with computational approaches to all new kinds of data. Our institute [at the University of Leipzig] include my research group called DynaMo but it originated with Markus Löffler who directs the institute and started working in dynamic modeling in biology 20 years ago, long before people talked about systems biology. That is why our institute became a little different, since he took over 15 years ago. I did my PhD here following this tradition, and have a
