The project “From signal detection to quantum dynamics in biology“, with Principal Investigator Dorje Brody, has been funded by the EPSRC small grants programme. The grant (EP/X019926/1, link here), with funding FEC £89,190, starts 1 January 2023 and runs for 12 months. The premise of the proposal is that all biological processes are generated by their information-processing capabilities. A highly effective way forward is to model the flow of noisy information available to biological systems. Their dynamical behaviours can then logically be derived from the techniques of stochastic filtering and signal detection. That is, mathematical techniques of signal detection is the most suited method to model dynamical systems driven by signal detection. Further details of the project can be found at the EPSRC link above. The image below (from the Guardian) shows a schematic of plant communication.