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SUMMARY:Complementarity of Physics\, Biology\, and Mathematics  in the Dyn
 amics of Biological Systems
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Professor Patrice Koehl\, Department of Computer Science and G
 enome Center\, University of California\, Davis\nThe ongoing transformatio
 n of biology to a quantitative discipline has drastically increased our op
 portunities to unravel the mechanisms that relate the dynamics of biologic
 al systems to their functions as it allows for the investigation of such s
 ystems at spatial and temporal scales never observed before. The biggest c
 hallenge today is to assimilate the wealth of information generated in thi
 s process into a conceptual framework. We face issues with the volume of d
 ata 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 com
 bination of mathematics\, physics\, and biology provides solutions to thes
 e challenges. I will focus specifically on the concept of shapes in biolog
 y\, their morphologies and dynamic behaviors.\nBio: After graduation from 
 the Ecole Centrale de Paris\, a higher education establishment for enginee
 rs\, I completed a PhD program in molecular biology and biophysics at the 
 University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg\, France. The same year\, I was app
 ointed staff scientist of the CNRS\, and joined the biological NMR laborat
 ory at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg. In 1997\, I came for a 
 sabbatical to Stanford University. I liked California so much that I decid
 ed to stay: in 2004\, I joined the University of California\, Davis\, with
  a joint appointment as Professor in the department of Computer Science an
 d the Genome Center.
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