Complementarity of Physics, Biology, and Mathematics in the Dynamics of Biological Systems
Event details
| Date | 24.03.2014 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Professor Patrice Koehl, Department of Computer Science and Genome Center, University of California, Davis |
| Location |
SV1717a
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The ongoing transformation of biology to a quantitative discipline has drastically increased our opportunities to unravel the mechanisms that relate the dynamics of biological systems to their functions as it allows for the investigation of such systems at spatial and temporal scales never observed before. The biggest challenge today is to assimilate the wealth of information generated in this process into a conceptual framework. We face issues with the volume of data generated (a Big Data challenge) as well as with the complexity of the systems they represent. In this talk I will show examples for which a combination of mathematics, physics, and biology provides solutions to these challenges. I will focus specifically on the concept of shapes in biology, their morphologies and dynamic behaviors.
Bio: After graduation from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, a higher education establishment for engineers, I completed a PhD program in molecular biology and biophysics at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France. The same year, I was appointed staff scientist of the CNRS, and joined the biological NMR laboratory at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg. In 1997, I came for a sabbatical to Stanford University. I liked California so much that I decided to stay: in 2004, I joined the University of California, Davis, with a joint appointment as Professor in the department of Computer Science and the Genome Center.
Bio: After graduation from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, a higher education establishment for engineers, I completed a PhD program in molecular biology and biophysics at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France. The same year, I was appointed staff scientist of the CNRS, and joined the biological NMR laboratory at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg. In 1997, I came for a sabbatical to Stanford University. I liked California so much that I decided to stay: in 2004, I joined the University of California, Davis, with a joint appointment as Professor in the department of Computer Science and the Genome Center.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Gisou van der Goot