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Murugan A, Husain K, Rust MJ, Hepler C, Bass J, Pietsch JMJ, Swain PS, Jena SG, Toettcher JE, Chakraborty AK, Sprenger KG, Mora T, Walczak AM, Rivoire O, Wang S, Wood KB, Skanata A, Kussell E, Ranganathan R, Shih HY, Goldenfeld N. Roadmap on biology in time varying environments. Phys Biol 2021; 18:10.1088/1478-3975/abde8d. [PMID: 33477124 PMCID: PMC8652373 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/abde8d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Biological organisms experience constantly changing environments, from sudden changes in physiology brought about by feeding, to the regular rising and setting of the Sun, to ecological changes over evolutionary timescales. Living organisms have evolved to thrive in this changing world but the general principles by which organisms shape and are shaped by time varying environments remain elusive. Our understanding is particularly poor in the intermediate regime with no separation of timescales, where the environment changes on the same timescale as the physiological or evolutionary response. Experiments to systematically characterize the response to dynamic environments are challenging since such environments are inherently high dimensional. This roadmap deals with the unique role played by time varying environments in biological phenomena across scales, from physiology to evolution, seeking to emphasize the commonalities and the challenges faced in this emerging area of research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Arvind Murugan
- James Franck Institute, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Kabir Husain
- James Franck Institute, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America
| | - Michael J Rust
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America,Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Chelsea Hepler
- Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, United States of America
| | - Joseph Bass
- Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Julian M J Pietsch
- SynthSys: Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom
| | - Peter S Swain
- SynthSys: Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Siddhartha G Jena
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States of America
| | - Jared E Toettcher
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Arup K Chakraborty
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America,Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America,Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America,Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America,Ragon Institute of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Kayla G Sprenger
- Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America,Ragon Institute of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America
| | - T Mora
- Laboratoire de physique, Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research University, Paris, France
| | - A M Walczak
- Laboratoire de physique, Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research University, Paris, France
| | - O Rivoire
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB), Collège de France, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Shenshen Wang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Kevin B Wood
- Departments of Biophysics and Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Antun Skanata
- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 12 Waverly Place, Rm. 206, New York, NY 10003, United States of America
| | - Edo Kussell
- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 12 Waverly Place, Rm. 206, New York, NY 10003, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Rama Ranganathan
- Center for Physics of Evolving Systems, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and the Pritzker School for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
| | - Hong-Yan Shih
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States of America,Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
| | - Nigel Goldenfeld
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States of America,Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States of America,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. , , , , , , , , , , and
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