Marek Kochańczyk

The paper identifies heritable single-cell gene expression states in macrophages and shows how they influence immune response variability and infection outcomes.

The paper quantifies how cancer and drug treatments affect the information capacity of RTK signaling pathways using optogenetic stimulation and information theory.

The paper uses a numerical model to study information transmission in cell monolayers, identifying stochastic factors that affect wave propagation and determining optimal channel widths and wave frequencies for effective communication.

This study shows that high sugar diets cause obesity, gut microbiota changes, and cognitive issues in mice, while low sugar diets have beneficial effects.

This study shows that type III interferons suppress viral infections by promoting rapid cell death in infected epithelial cells, unlike type I interferons which mainly induce ISG expression.

The paper models the antagonism between viral infection and innate immunity at the single-cell level using an agent-based stochastic approach, revealing three levels of viral interference with the immune response.

The paper quantifies the information transmission rate of the MAPK/ERK pathway, finding it can transmit at least 6 bits per hour.

The paper shows that the MAPK/ERK pathway can transmit up to 1.86 bits of information per hour by encoding temporal patterns of EGF pulses into ERK activity pulses.