NITMB faculty member Sergei Maslov highlights how environments can encourage interdependence in microbial communities

Meet Laura Kubatko, Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) and of Statistics at Ohio State University!

Discover research uncovering the physical principles of biological cells and tissues with AI and math! Moumita Das is a Professor of physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. At NITMB, she was co-organizer of the 'Expanding the Palette of Mathematics in Biology' workshop. Learn more and watch talk recordings from this workshop. Credits: Human elbow joint anatomy graphic courtesy of Magnific: https://www.magnific.com/free-vector/human-elbow-joint-anatomy-illustration_2

Meet Ning Wei, assistant professor of mathematics at Purdue University!

From insects to birds to mammals, research from NITMB community members Guy Amichay and Daniel Abrams demonstrates that communication signals follow a common tempo

Research co-authored by NITMB Affiliate Member Alexandria Volkening has recently been awarded the Outstanding Paper Prize for 2025 by The Company of Biologists.

Meet Guanao Yan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE) at Michigan State University!

A new study from NITMB faculty member Marco Gallio and NITMB Deputy Director of Broader Impacts, William Kath, finds specialized 'snow flies' produce bursts of heat and antifreeze proteins.

The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) is excited to announce that Lisa Fauci (Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor, Mathematics, Tulane University) and Alan Hastings (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis) have joined the Institute as Scientific Leaders. NITMB Scientific Leaders act as hands-on guides who directly shape the science supported by the Institute. Working alon

Meet Gökçe Dayanıklı, assistant professor of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!