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Our research is aimed at understanding how organisms change their micro-environment to buffer themselves against harmful environmental fluctuations, while still allowing for exchange of energy, matter and information with the macro-world. This includes protein assemblies that remain intact under varying external mechanical and chemical stimuli, beetles that navigate using volatile celestial cues, and honeybee clusters that change their morphology to both withstand mechanical stresses, and to regulate their bulk temperature. Each of these examples is a complex system, where the individual building blocks (a protein, cell, plant, insect, etc.) can sense their micro-environment and respond in a way that promotes survival; typically, the response changes the macro-environment the individual is embedded in, thus creating a perpetual coupling between the individuals, the group and the environment (illustrated above). ​ In active biological-physical systems, disorder could be a plus: while o

--> Physics of Behavior | Peleg Lab top of page Our lab is an interdisciplinary group of researchers based at the University of Colorado Boulder, led by Dr. Orit Peleg. Our goal is to formulate and test phenomenological theories about natural signal design principles and their emergent spatiotemporal patterns. We focus on universal problems that most communication systems must solve, whether they are animate or inanimate: How should organisms choose an optimal signal modality? How should they spatiotemporally integrate signals? And how should they respond (communicate a message back, locomote,

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