Physics of Medicine

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Physics of Living Matter

PLM 7

13th & 14th September 2012,
UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre

Bragg Lecture:
Roger Brent (Seattle, USA)

  • Chris Barnes (London, UK)
  • Tariq Enver (London, UK)
  • U. Gaul (Munich, Germany)
  • C. Guet (Vienna, Austria)
  • Martin Howard (Norwich, UK)
  • Tony Hyman (Dresden, Germany)
  • B. Lehner (Barcelona, Spain)
  • P. Martin (Paris, France)
  • J. Molloy (London, UK)
  • B. Novak (Oxford, UK)
  • T. Risler (Paris, France)
  • R. Rodriguez Daga (Sevilla, Spain)
  • E. Siggia (New York, USA)
  • V. Sourjik (Heidelberg, Germany)
  • JP Vincent (London, UK)

Registration available at: http://physcell.eventbrite.co.uk/

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Previous Events

Six lectures on systems biology

Jeremy Gunawardena

Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
http://www.jeremy-gunawardena.com/

Notes from these lectures are available from Jeremy's home page.

Three topics will be discussed focusing on how concepts from mathematics, physics and engineering are providing new insights into biological complexity and on work in our lab as well as aspects of an introductory graduate course that I co-teach at Harvard,

  1. Post-translational modification and codes. Most proteins are modified on multiple sites by a bewildering zoo of chemical modifications, whose combinatorics is often astronomical. What is all this complexity for? We will discuss new experimental and mathematical approaches for making sense of this.
  2. Homeostasis and integral feedback. Cybernetics was an early form of non-molecular systems biology. It provided the first mechanistic explanation for homeostasis, or how organisms maintained the constancy of their internal environments, in the face of external perturbations. We will discuss how cybernetic ideas are being rediscovered and reinterpreted for the molecular era.
  3. Modularity and weak linkage. Unlike homeostasis, the development of an organism is a process that remains profoundly dynamic. Yet, this process is both robust on a physiological timescale and flexible on an evolutionary one. How is that possible? We will speculate about some potential answers.

For contact and information: Duncan Simpson (drs45) or Alfonso Martinez Arias (ama11)

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