MACBES

Macbes is one of the two project-teams following the Biocore project-team. 

Macbes is a common project-team between Inria, INRAE, CNRS and Université Côte d’Azur, associating researchers of Inria d’Université Côte d’Azur, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (ISA – UMR INRAE CNRS and Université Côte d’Azur, Models and Methods for Plant Protection team), and Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire  (IPMC – UMR CNRS and Université Côte d’Azur). 

Understanding and controlling dynamics are at the core of major challenges in biology and ecology central to human and environmental health. With the increasing availability of data time-series in these fields and better comprehension of the fundamental biological mechanisms, building models is required to fully grasp these dynamics. The objective of Macbes is to apply and develop  methodologies of control theory and computational biology to specific applications in biology and ecology: the ecologically friendly protection and management of ecosystems, such as agroecosystems, and  the characterization and deciphering of mammalian cell responses to their environment, in particular the effect of network interactions and developments in synthetic biology. Macbes has privileged access to biological data generated by the partners within the project-team which allows for the development of the most relevant models related to the applications.