Welcome to the MathBio Website

As our understanding of biochemical pathways increases, it is clear that these pathways form networks of astonishing complexity and diversity. The large scale and minute intricacy of these networks combine to make it difficult for cell biologists or biochemists working in one area of a cell's biochemistry to be aware of, let alone relate their results to, results obtained from the various different areas. For many years this was not a big problem as the initial elucidation of the pathway structures of different systems was reasonable to perform in relative isolation. However, as the interconnected nature of these systems has begun to be revealed over the past decade, it is becoming more clear that studying signal transduction in isolated pieces will not be satisfactory. In order to address this problem, the concept of systems biology study has emerged.The idea is clearly correct; cells in general (and biochemical pathways in particular) will never be fully understood unless they are studied as a global system.

MathBio is a mathematical biology research group at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, whose main focus is on studying the dynamics of these complex biological systems. Our group consists of mathematicians, molecular cell biologists, as well as computer scientists and bioinformaticians, creating an unique environment of diverse skills, yet integrated by a single interest point.