by Raman Lab | Jan 12, 2026 | Science Demystified
Introducing the Spectral Tree: A new geometry of evolutionary diversity Published in Cell Systems in 2025 What shape does biological diversity take? For centuries, evolutionary biology has answered this with the tree—a metaphor for descent with modification. But if...
by Raman Lab | Jan 12, 2026 | Featured, Science Demystified
Learning emergence from statistics Published in eLife in 2022 What if we could uncover organizing principles of biology not by cataloguing every gene or molecule, but by learning from the statistical structure of the system itself? In the first paper from our lab we...
by Raman Lab | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured, Science Demystified
Welcome to the Raman Lab. Hello! If you look around our site, you’ll see a lot of different stuff about Biology. But really, we study just one thing. How nature builds complexity. And how we can learn from it. We believe that the most elegant solutions in science...
by Raman Lab | Feb 19, 2025 | A physics of natural systems, Papers
Subspecies phylogeny in the human gut revealed by co-evolutionary constraints across the bacterial kingdom With the advent of sequencing, biological systems like bacteria can be described in a myriad of ways, including by their entire genome sequence. But, with this...
by Raman Lab | Oct 22, 2024 | A physics of natural systems, Papers
Conserved principles of spatial biology define tumor heterogeneity and response to immunotherapy Emergent phenomena are everywhere in biology—from macro-ecosystems like birds flocking and ants foraging down to the scale of ecosystems of amino acids that comprise a...
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