THEORY OF LIVING MATTER
Living systems have evolved intriguing mechanisms of self-regulation to unfold their physical shape, maintain their robust functioning, and integrate into their ecosystem.
From basal symmetry breaking during morphogenesis to allometric relationships spanning orders of magnitudes of species sizes, life demonstrates an extraordinary capacity for self-organisation that bridges physics, biology and ecology.
For nearly 15 years, I have been investigating the fundamental principles and mechanisms that underlie such self-organisation in living systems.
RESEARCH TOPICS — PRESENT AND PAST
Allometry and scaling of body geometry,
body composition, and metabolism
Developmental pattern formation
(somitogenesis, neurogenesis)
Stem cell homeostasis
(germ line, adult neurogenesis and other tissue types)
Genetic oscillations and biochemical signaling
Nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of complex systems
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Stem cell populations as self-renewing many-particle systems
Jörg et al., Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 12, 135–153 (2021)
The proneural wave in the Drosophila optic lobe is driven by an excitable reaction-diffusion mechanism
Jörg et al., eLife 8, e40919 (2019)
Fate mapping of human glioblastoma reveals an invariant stem cell hierarchy
Lan et al., Nature 549, 227 (2017)
Stochastic Kuramoto oscillators with discrete phase states
Jörg, Phys. Rev. E 96, 032201 (2017)
A Doppler effect in embryonic pattern formation
Soroldoni et al., Science 345, 222—225 (2014)
