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SUMMARY:EPFL BioE Talks SERIES  "How Personalised Is Your Immune System?"
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DESCRIPTION:Aleksandra Walczak\, Ph.D.\, Research Director\, École Normal
 e Supérieure\, Paris (France)\nWEEKLY EPFL BIOE TALKS SERIES\n\nAbstract:
 \nImmune repertoires provide a unique fingerprint reflecting the immune hi
 story of individuals\, with potential applications in precision medicine. 
 Can this information be used to identify a person uniquely?  How did the 
 immune system learn to avoid our own proteins? I will explore how learning
  about randomness can help us read this information we all carry within us
 .\n\nBio:\nAleksandra Walczak completed her Masters degree at Warsaw Unive
 rsity (Poland) and received her PhD in physics at the University of Califo
 rnia (USA)\, working on models of stochastic gene expression. After a grad
 uate fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (California
 )\, she worked on applying information theory to signal processing in smal
 l gene regulatory networks at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
  (USA). Currently based at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (France
 ) as a Research Director and CNRS researcher\, she studies the effects of 
 selection on population genealogies\, collective behaviour of bird flocks 
 and statistical descriptions of the immune system. Dr. Walczak was awarded
  the “Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand de l’Académie des sciences" in 2014
  and the bronze medal of CNRS in 2016. Her ERC project 'RECOGNIZE' focuses
  on the self-organization of the immune repertoire at the molecular and ev
 olutionary level\, by using a combination of data analysis and statistical
  mechanics modelling. Dr. Walczak aims to shed light on the diversity and 
 complexity of immune receptors on the surfaces of B and T cells\, which in
 teract with pathogens\, recognize them and initiate an immune response.\n\
 n\nZoom link (with one-time registration for the whole series) for attendi
 ng remotely: https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks\n\n\nInstructions for 1st-ye
 ar Ph.D. students who are under EDBB’s mandatory seminar attendance rule
 :\nIF you are not attending in-person in the room\, please make sure to\n\
 n	send D. Reinhard a note before noon on seminar day\, informing that you 
 plan to attend the talk online\, and\n	be signed in on Zoom with a recogni
 zable user name (not a pseudonym making it difficult or impossible to be i
 dentified).\n\nStudents attending the seminar in-person should collect a c
 onfirmation signature after the talk - please print your own signature she
 et beforehand (71 kB pdf available for download here).\n 
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