Integrative Systems Biology at Georgia Tech

Integrative systems biology is the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary science that studies complex biological systems as integrated functioning entities at multiple levels. It generates data through discovery-driven high-throughput experiments, integrates these with biological information from hypothesis-driven experiments, creates new devices and techniques for elucidating biological systems, analyzes experimental results with methods of mathematics, physics, and computer science, and uses insights from these multi-disciplinary investigations for the manipulation and optimization of biological systems. Applied goals of integrative systems biology include improvements in medicine, drug development, food and energy production, biotechnology, and environmental stewardship.

The Integrative BioSystems Institute (IBSI) at Georgia Tech fosters collaboration among the Colleges of Science, Engineering, and Computer Science by providing a physical and intellectual focus for integrative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in the quantitative life sciences. IBSI promotes synergism among researchers with complementary skills and addresses complex multi-level problems in biology that cannot be solved by any researcher or scientific discipline alone.

IBSI sponsors a distinguished seminar series, an informal chalk-talk series, a shared graduate student program and a pilot-research program.