The FAS Center for Systems Biology is an Interdepartmental initiative. Our overall goal is to combine a variety of experimental and theoretical approaches to find general principles that help to explain the structure, behavior and evolution of cells and organisms. Our faculty and Fellows span a wide range of disciplines, including biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and engineering. We are the home of the Bauer Fellows Program.

At the molecular level, focusing on the process of translation. Of cellular genetic information into protein molecules. Our analyses extend from the near-instantaneous cellular responses. To environmental stress to the multi-million-year evolutionary divergence. Our research concentrates on massive assembly. Of proteins and RNA in response to changes in the cellular environment. We exploit our biological discoveries by engineering self-assembling molecules.