Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology

Structure of the Institute

• Laboratory of Macromolecular Crystallography
• Laboratory of Quantum-Mechanical Systems
• Laboratory of Molecular Dynamics
• Laboratory of Neural Networks
• Laboratory of Applied Mathematics
• Laboratory of Bioinformatics
• Laboratory of Computational Ecology
• Laboratory of Data Processing
• Department of Prospective Information Technologies
• * Group for Computer Modelling of Nanostructures and Biosystems
• Department of Computing and Informational Resources

  Scientific activity

Research directions

• Theoretical development;
• * theoretical foundations of nanobioelectronics;
• * development of spectro-analytical methods of data processing of results of biological experiments;
• * development of numerical methods of data processing of results of biological experiments;
• * analytical solutions of Integro-differential equations;
• * methods of analysis of dynamical systems.
• Data processing
• * analysis of the activity of the human brain;
• * development of methods for assessing biodiversity of vegetation cover;
• * development of algorithms and programs for the study of genomic sequences;
• * development of computer methods of research of the primary structures of biopolymers;
• * development of novel methods of deciphering the structure of complexes of biological macromolecules on the basis of data on the scattering of X-rays and neutrons;
• * development of methods for obtaining, processing and analysis of digital image in biology and medicine.
• Computational biology
• * simulation of dynamics of biomolecular systems;
• * neural network models of information processing in the brain structures;
• * growing random graphs and their application in mathematical neurobiology;
• * study of models of voltage-gated ion channels in excitable biomembranes;
• * software for studying cell metabolism;
• * Mathematical models in biomechanics;
• * numerical solution of problems of cardiophysics.
• Synergetics
• * study of nonlinear models of autolocalized states in condensed matter;
• * asymptotic methods and numerical modelling in the study of excitation waves;
• * the theory of bifurcation in functional differential equations and phenomena bifurcation memory.
• Bioinformatics
• Concurrent computing
• * development of high-performance computer cluster;
• * CUDA technology.

  Specialized research projects

• The project "Mathematical Cell";
• The project "Generalized Spectral-Analytical Method".

  Teaching and social activities

History

Milestones

Principals

• 1972–98 Molchanov, Albert Makarievich, director, mathematician.
• 1998–2016 Lakhno, Viktor Dmitrievich, director, mathematician.
• since 2016 Lakhno, Viktor Dmitrievich, branch manager, mathematician.

  Famous faculty and alumni

• Dedus, Florence Fyodorovich
• Molchanov, Albert Makarievich
• Shnol, Emmanuel El'evich