Math-Bio Seminar
Fall 2004
Modeling of genetic networks
Introduction
(combination of handouts distributed Sep. 7 and Sep. 14)
List of papers for presentations is
here. Papers shown in blue have been already
presented. You may present a paper of your choice after consulting the seminar
leader.
Reading assignment for Sep. 21:
- J.S. Griffith, Mathematics of cellular control processes I.
Negative feedback to one gene, J. Theor. Biol. 20, 202-208 (1968).
- J.S. Griffith, Mathematics of cellular control
processes II. Positive feedback to one gene, J. Theor. Biol. 20, 209-216
(1968). PDF with 1. and 2.
- J.L. Cherry & F.R. Adler, How to make a
biological switch, J. Theor. Biol., 203, 117-133 (2000). PDF
Reading assignment for Oct. 12
- M.B. Elowitz & S.
Liebler, A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators, Nature 403, 335-338 (2000). PDF
- J. Garcia-Ojalvo, M.B.
Elowitz, & S.H. Strogatz, Modeling a synthetic multicellular clock:
Repressilators coupled by quorum sensing, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 101, 10955-10960 (2004). PDF
Reading assignment for Oct. 19
- H.J. Wearing, M.R.
Owen, & J.A. Sherratt, Mathematical modelling of juxtacrine
patterning, Bull. Math. Biol. 62, 293-320 (2000). PDF
Reading assignment for Oct. 26
- R. Albert
& H.G. Othmer, The topology of the regulatory interactions predicts the
expression pattern of the segment polarity genes in Drosophila
melanogaster, J. Theor. Biol. 223, 1-18 (2003). PDF
Reading assignment for Nov.
- B.D. Aguda & B.
Clarke, Dynamic elements of chaos in the Willamowski-Rossler network, J. Chem. Phys. 89, 7428-7434 (1988). PDF