Our paper "A Survey of Molecular Communication in Cell Biology: Establishing a New Hierarchy for Interdisciplinary Applications" (open access DOI) was accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. This paper bridges the gap between life sciences and communications engineering to promote the application of molecular communication as a methodology for applications that require communication between cells and other microscale devices. To do so, we propose a novel communication hierarchy for molecular communication signalling in cell biology. We map biological phenomena, research contributions, and open problems to the hierarchy. We also apply the hierarchy to case studies on quorum sensing, neuronal signalling, and communication via DNA. This paper was co-authored with Apostolos Almpanis from our group, in addition to Dadi Bi and Yansha Deng (King's College London), and Robert Schober (FAU, Germany).

Our paper "A Survey of Molecular Communication in Cell Biology: Establishing a New Hierarchy for Interdisciplinary Applications" has been posted to arXiv. This survey provides a hierarchical framework to model communication-based behaviour in cells. We use the framework to review instances of communication in cell biological systems and identify opportunities to control behaviour and design new systems. We also apply the hierarchy to case studies of quorum sensing, neuronal signalling, and communication via DNA. In particular, the hierarchy provides a roadmap to understand how cell behaviour is informed and constrained by the propagation of molecular signals and the physical mechanisms for detecting those signals. The survey was co-authored with Dadi Bi (King's College London), Apostolos Almpanis (Warwick), Yansha Deng (King's College London), and Robert Schober (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany).