Ala Trusina

Ala Trusina is an Associate Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, specializing in Biocomplexity and Biophysics. Her research integrates coarse-grained modeling to study complex biological systems.

• Key Research Areas
  • Stress Response Systems (diabetes, aging, cancer, inflammation)
  • Stem Cell Differentiation (cell fate coordination, reversibility of states)
  • Complex Systems (species coexistence, epidemics, CRISPR-phage interactions)
• Methodologies
  • Theoretical: Agent-based modeling, in-silico simulations
  • Experimental: Quantitative single-cell imaging, RNA/protein profiling
• Collaborations
  • Joshua Brickman (ES cells), Anne Grapin-Botton (pancreas), Feroz Papa (diabetes), Else Kai Hoffman (p53 dynamics)
  • Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen (inflammation), Savas Tay (spatio-temporal regulation)
• Teaching
  • Physics of Molecular Diseases
  • Numerical Methods in Physics