Lewis Mosby

I recently completed my biophysics PhD project at the University of Warwick, during which I modelled and simulated the binding dynamics of end-binding proteins. I am particularly interested in applying the principles of statistical mechanics to complex biological systems. My current work as a postdoctoral researcher in Zena’s lab focuses on how and why characteristic lengths associated with tissues scale with organism size during growth. For this project I am using a combination of analytical and numerical approaches to probe the evolution of morphogen and expander molecule distributions as a function of time and tissue size, before comparing my results to experimental data. The aim of this work is to identify an evolutionary pathway that robustly generates tissue size scaling.