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The Forum “Economic principles in cell physiology” is a monthly meeting for discussions about cell biology and mathematical modelling, organised by an open group of researchers at any stage of their career. Students, junior faculty, advanced researchers, professors emeriti: please feel free and welcome to join!

Aside from the forum, we are writing a free 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, to join the Young Scholars group for students and postdocs, please register for our slack space PlCPhysiology_scholars.


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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 young researchers
  3. Open-access textbook
  4. Collection of teaching materials for systems biology
  5. Summer school for students and young researchers (next summer school: July 2024)
  6. Workshop held in October 2023 at ICTP Trieste

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. Planning meetings: Meeting notes (google doc)
  4. 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 X/Twitter hashtag #CellularEconomyForum to promote the forum.
  4. Use the X/Twitter hashtag #celleconomics to promote and discuss the textbook chapters.