Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
El-Samad’s lab is interested in interdisciplinary research at the interface of cellular biology, dynamical systems modeling, and control theory. We aim to tackle fundamental questions to uncover the basic design principles of biological signaling, including inter- and intra-cellular communication and processing of single and multicellular systems, and evolutionary rewiring of conserved pathways across multiple species. To obtain higher resolution on the molecular mechanisms underlying cellular signaling, The El-Samad group applies quantitative perturbative and measurement tools. It further develops and employs mathematical modeling tools to inform testable hypotheses and uncover predictable structure in high dimensional data.