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The Forum “Economic Principles in Cell Physiology” is a monthly meeting for discussions about cell biology and mathematical modelling. It is organised by a group of researchers at various career steps. Students, junior faculty, advanced researchers, professors emeriti: please feel free and welcome to join!

Aside from the forum, we are writing an open-access book. We also organize a yearly summer school and collect teaching materials for systems biology. You are welcome to contribute to all these activities! Finally, students and early-career researchers can join the Young Scholars group.

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Welcome to the economic cell collective!

Since 2021, we have been organizing ourselves as a community of researchers in systems biology and related fields, and interested in fundamental questions around cell physiology, cellular growth, resource allocation, and biological thermodynamics. Our monthly forum is a place for discussing general and fundamental questions about our field. It takes place on the 1st Thursday of each month. Everybody is invited to join!

Our activities

This website gives you an overview of our different activities. For more details, please contact the organizers.

  1. The monthly Forum Economic Principles in Cell Physiology
  2. The Young Scholars group - a subgroup for students and early-career researchers
  3. Open-access textbook
  4. Collection of teaching materials for systems biology
  5. Summer schools for students and young researchers
  6. Workshops

Where to find what

  1. Email list: please subscribe to our email list for Forum announcements.
  2. Slack space for students and postdocs: PlCPhysiology_scholars
  3. Contact: principles-cell-physiology@googlegroups.com

What you can do

  1. Our group is what we make of it - please feel free to suggest new activities!
  2. Tell your colleagues and students about our group.
  3. Use the hashtag #CellularEconomyForum to promote the forum.
  4. Use the hashtag #celleconomics to promote and discuss the textbook chapters.