Feedback control is ubiquitous across biological systems: it provides robustness to uncertainty in the environment, enables adaptation, and can alter the speed or stability of a system’s response. Rapid advances in experimental methods, computational power, and control theory are now creating unprecedented opportunities in the emerging field of biological control, where investigators seek to establish principles for the design and control of biological systems arising from a growing convergence between the engineering principles of feedback control and the diverse array of self-regulating systems in biology.

The Graduate Training Program in Biological Feedback Control is an NSF-funded Research Traineeship (NRT) that will equip PhD students with the knowledge and skills needed to decipher the rules of biological feedback control and to harness those rules to control and synthesize natural, engineered, and biohybrid systems. Students will be trained in methods for modeling feedback control, analyzing how biological systems implement control in natural contexts, and identifying opportunities for novel designs.

Learn more about the NRT program here: https://sites.bu.edu/biocontrol/.