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Seminar in Biomathematics

Time and Place: Tuesday, 10-11 am, HG G 19.1, starting from May 3
After the talks there will we a discussion with the speakers in the Common Room (HG G 69)

Speakers: Alain Hauser, Laura Keller and Dr. Grégory Paul

Announcement

Scedule

Date Speaker
Title
Slides
May, 3 Laura Keller
A first glimpse at Biomathematics
Talk 1
May, 10 Dr. Grégory Paul
What is life? An interdisciplinary introduction to Biology
Talk 2
May, 17 Dr. Grégory Paul
Bridging scales in biological systems: mathematical challenges
Talk 3
May, 24 Alain Hauser
Modeling and learning causal relationship in biological systems
Talk 4
May, 31 Laura Keller
Application of a Keller-Segel model to explanation of microglia aggregation in the context of Alzheimer disease
Talk 5

Further References

General reference:
J. D. Murray, Mathematical Biology, Springer, 2003
A nice overview by Perthame can be found here

Modelling brain tumours:
A first short introduction to modelling of brain tomours can be found here here
Papers Swanson: a collection of articles

Pattern formation:
M. A. J. Chaplain, G. D. Singh, J. C. McLachlan, On growth and form, Wiley, 1999

Systems Biology:
U. Alon, An introduction to systems biology, Chapman & Hall, 2007
Z. Szallasi, J. Stelling, V. Periwal, System modeling in cell biology: from concepts to nuts and bolts, MIT Press, 2006

Causality: Overviews
S. L. Lauritz, Graphical Models, 1996
Pearl's article can be found here
Spirtes' article can be found here
Causality: Special articles
M. H. Maathuis, M. Kalisch, P. Bühlmann, Estimating high-dimensional intervention effects from observation data, Annals of Statistics, 37 (2009), 3133-3164
T. Verma, J. Pearl, An algorithm for deciding if a set of observed independencies has a causal explanation, Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1992

Alzheimer's disease: Bio-medical articles
The article of Giulian can be found here
The article of Osherovich can be found here
Alzheimer's disease: Mathematical articles
The article of Luca et al. can be found here
The article of Quinlan and Straughan can be found here
And a related article of Payne and Straughan about a Keller-Segel model can be found here

What is Life:
The article of Chao can be found here
The article of Crick can be found here
The article of Gould and Lewontin can be found here
The article of Mayr can be found here
Bridging scales:
The article of Huang can be found here

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