Events in MathSys and Complexity Science
This is a calendar page detailing events within the MathSys CDT. It also acts as a booking diary for the Seminar Room D1.07. To book D1.07 please email Sheetal.Sharma@warwick.ac.uk
Please note that your event booking is for D1.07 only. The adjacent common room is a private area for the MathSys Centre that cannot used as part of your booking.
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Complexity Forum (Joint with Systems Biology): Peter Swain (University of Edinburgh)
Location: D1.07
Speaker: Peter Swain (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Microbial decision-making: decyphering noisy signals with noisy machinery
Abstract: Stochasticity pervades life at the cellular level. Cells receive stochastic signals, perform detection and transduction with stochastic biochemistry, and grow and die in stochastic environments. I will argue that cellular decision-making is probabilistic. Using calculations from idealized models and studies of the mating response in budding yeast, I will discuss the mechanism of signal transduction in a scaffolded MAP kinase cascade and whether we should consider such signal transduction as implementing a form of statistical inference.