Welcome to our lab
Research in our laboratory includes theoretical and experimental approaches to investigate the evolution and functional differentiation of stress response proteins. We are using the immune and the heat-shock systems as model genetic systems.
our research.philosophy
“Contrary to what is often imagined, biology is not a unified science. At the extremes are two great tendencies, two attitudes in fundamental opposition. The first may be called integrationist. The opposing attitude may be called tomist or reductionist.The method of decoding originates in the combinative system (combinatoire: the totality of possible combinations with a given set of elements) which constitutes the essential tool of scientific research. To establish an alphabet of thought complexity must be reduced to the simplicity of its component units. ”
- F.
Jacobs (in The Logic of
Life: A History of Heredity, 1973)
