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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. Scope:
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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