[CSBi-events] CSB/Biophysics Seminar Friday (4/16) -- Prof. Philippe Cluzel

[CSBi events]

Spring 2010 Seminar Series on Computational and Systems Biology & Biophysics

Friday, April  16, 2010

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Room 32-155

 

Presenting:

Randomness and predictability of cellular response in bacteria

                              

Professor Philippe Cluzel

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Harvard University

 

Abstract: 

In light of the diversity and the complexity of living  systems in nature,
it is fair to ask whether even the  best-characterized biological phenomena
can be described using first  physical principles. Examining several
theoretical and experimental  examples, I will discuss how E. coli bacteria
use simple intracellular  networks, composed of just a few components, to
perform essential biological computations, such as adaptation and response
to environmental perturbations. The study of the dynamics of these simple
networks not only highlights a general connection between stochastic  events
within the networks and the evolution of cellular response, but  it should
also help identify basic design principles of other more complex biological
systems.

 

 Light refreshments to be served at 2:45 pm

 Host: Alexander van Oudenaarden ( <mailto:avo1 at mit.edu> avo1 at mit.edu),
Department of Physics and Biology

 

 

 

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