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The Bangham Lab

The Bangham Lab is part of the UEA D’Arcy Thompson Centre for computational biology.

Computational Biology

<sgallery width="160" height="280" showarrows="false" showcarousel="false" showinfopane="false" timed="true" delay="2000"> LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000250-0001.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000340-0001.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000490-0001.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000570-0002.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000570-0003.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000570-0004.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000570-0005.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000570-0007.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000570-0006.png LabelledCropped_GPT_Snapdragon_2010-000570-0001.png </sgallery> More details	Genes and growing shapes The aim is to understand how patterns of gene activity in biological organs influence the developing shape. A key notion is that genes may regulate direction independently of growth rate. We formalised our ideas in the Growing Polarised Tissue Framework (ref). To make it easy to develop ideas on the relationship between growth and form we implemented a software package: GFtbox. Using GFtbox one can start with a simple sheet of tissue (the canvas), lay out experimentally observed, or hypothesised, patterns of regulator activity and then grow the canvas in 3D. The final shape can be compared quantitatively with it's biological counterpart. More details	<sgallery width="160" height="280" showarrows="false" showcarousel="false" showinfopane="false" timed="true" delay="4000"> LabelledCropped GPT Snapdragon 2010-000570-0003 double.png LabelledCropped GPT Snapdragon 2010-000570-0002 triple.png </sgallery> More details