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The primary objective of the Laboratory of Biophysics of Active Media (LBAM) is to provide research and educational opportunities to develop a basic understanding of behavior of biological and chemical active media such as the heart, BZ reaction, microbial colonies, aquatic communities, and others, and to use that knowledge to develop useful applications. The central focus of the activities at the LBAM has been to develop a biophysical base of both regular and chaotic spatio-temporal patterns in the active media and to control the processes underlying the pattern variability.

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Laboratory’s research programs include:

  • Experimental and theoretical investigations of pattern formation in microbial colonies;
  • The basic physics of complex vortex dynamics in 3D active media;
  • Biophysical aspects of chaotic and regular spatio-temporal dynamics of aquatic communities.
  • Experimental and theoretical study of mechanisms of polymorphic arrhythmias with using multielectrode mapping of excitation wave patterns;

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History:

Founded in 1997, the laboratory consolidated research carried out in a few research laboratories of different institutes of Pushchino Biological Center: Institute for Theoretical & Experimental Biophysics, Institute of Cell Biophysics, Institute for Mathematical Problems of Biology, and Institute of Biochemistry & Physiology of Microorganisms . The LBAM developed joint researches with academic teams in USA, Germany, Italy, France, UK, Spain, the Netherlands, and Ukraine.

The laboratory was originally known as the Laboratory of excitation autowave processes established by Prof. Valentine Krinsky in 1976. Our new name more accurately defines the broad range of biophysics related research and education for which the laboratory has become known.

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Last modified 7th September, 2000

 

You are in the pages of "My web-portfolio". On the page, you see a copy of the web-site of Laboratory for biophysics of active media ITEB RAS, which was created by A.V.Moskalenko on 30 Nov, 1999. The site has been the official laboratory site since 2000 till 2004.
This is one of version, that was made by the end of 2000.