BioCmpSem | Main / Quantitative Biology Seminar

(Formerly the biological physics seminar and the math biology forum)
Supported by the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and ICAM.

Seminars are Mondays at noon in 335 West Hall (unless otherwise noted). Brown bag lunches are welcome.

Schedule Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
9/10	Chris Fink (Physics, UM)	Acetylcholine and Synaptic Homeostasis	Booth
10/8	Sara Aton (MCDB, UM)	Network mechanisms for sleep-dependent plasticity in brain circuits	Booth
11/12	Pedro Lowenstein (Neurosurgery and CDB, UM)	Brain tumors as organisms: prolegomena towards building realistic [geometric – physical –mathematical –computational] models of cancer	Lubensky
12/10	Michael Rust (U of Chicago)	Robust Circadian Rhythms from Coupled Catalytic Domains	Lubensky

Schedule Winter 2013

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
1/14	Silas Alben (Math, UM)	Mechanical models of fish and krill swimming	Booth
1/28	Adam Stinchcombe (Courant Institute, NYU)	General gene-state switching models for stochastic gene expression	Forger
2/11	Allen Liu (Mechanical Engineering, UM)	Systems analysis of clathrin-coated pit dynamics	Lubensky
3/18 (RESCHEDULED)	Gennady Cymbalyuk (Georgia State)	Cellular mechanisms controlling temporal characteristics of neuronal activity	Zochowski
4/22	Joern Davidsen (U of Calgary)	Inferring Causal Connections and Functional Networks	Zochowski