Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn

My research focuses on how organisms interact with their environment at the cell scale: how does the environment affect cell behaviour, how can cells sense their environment, and how can they in turn regulate their behaviour and shape the environment? As a mathematical biologist, I use theoretical and computational approaches to tackle these questions in a range of biological applications from microbial interactions to cell mechanosensing.

Current projects include:

• The plasticity of bacterial interactions across environments
• How can bacteria sense different environments and regulate their metabolic strategy accordingly
• The evolution of predation from different ecologies
• Mechanosensing across different cell scales from endothelial layers to the nucleus.