Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Title: Imagining how a cell thinks: The design of reaction network schemes that do machine learning

Abstract: A living cell responds in sophisticated ways to its environment. Such behavior is all the more remarkable when one considers that a cell is a bag of molecules. A detailed algorithmic explanation is required for how a network of chemical reactions can produce sophisticated behavior. Several previous works have shown that...

Title: Couples Oscillations in Biology

Abstract: The control of proteins by a transcription factor with periodically varying concentration exhibits intriguing dynamical behavior. If the concentration of another element, for instance a ligand responsible for the activation of the transcription factor, is oscillating as well, the system of coupled oscillators can create regions of bistable oscillation states. We investigate how transitions between different entrained states caused by intrinsic noise affect the expression of...

Bio: Mary Teruel, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
Biographical Sketch: Mary’s NIH Biosketch...

Title: Human Thought and the Human Future:  A Structural Biologist Offers New Approaches for Solving World Problems ​​​​

Bio: Carl Pabo spent several decades doing research on the structure and design of DNA-binding proteins, making some fundamental contributions to the field.  In 2001, he decided to leave his positions as a tenured professor at MIT and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to look at some even-more-critical questions about the power and limits of human thought...

Title: When good isoforms go bad: Mapping mutation/modification cross talk on KRAS4b in colorectal cancer

Clare Waterman
NIH Distinguished Investigator
Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics

Title: "Active ordering of integrin cell surface receptors by the actin cytoskeleton:
The fundamental basis of directional tension sensing"

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