• Daniel Forger, The mathematics of the wearables with applications to circadian rhythms and sleep

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: Millions of individuals track their steps, heart rate, and other physiological signals through wearables. This data scale is unprecedented; I will describe several of our apps and ongoing studies, each of which collects wearable and mobile data from thousands of users,

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    Dynamics-based data science in biology

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: Life science has been a prosperous subject for a long time, and is still developing with high speed now. One of its major aims is to study the mechanisms of various biological processes on the basis of biological big-data. Many statistics-based

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    Advice to my younger self

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Facebook live streaming: https://www.facebook.com/10226475900150025/videos/10226475902790091 Age brings the benefit of experience and looking back at my job as a professor, there are a couple of things that fall into the category “I wish someone had told me that earlier”. In this seminar, I

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    Neural network aided approximation and parameter inference of stochastic models of gene expression

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: Non-Markov models of stochastic biochemical kinetics often incorporate explicit time delays to effectively model large numbers of intermediate biochemical processes. Analysis and simulation of these models, as well as the inference of their parameters from data, are fraught with difficulties because

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    Towards individualized predictions of human sleep and circadian timing

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: Accurate assessment of circadian timing is critical to many applications, including timing of drug delivery, prediction of neurobehavioral performance, and optimized scheduling of sleep. Current methods for measuring circadian timing are onerous and do not produce results in real time. Mathematical

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    Inference for Circadian Pacemaking

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: Organisms have evolved an internal biological clock which allows them to temporally regulate and organize their physiological and behavioral responses to cope in an optimal way with the fundamentally periodic nature of the environment. It is now well established that the

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    Theory and design of molecular integral feedback controllers

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: Homeostasis is a recurring theme in biology that ensures that regulated variables robustly adapt to environmental perturbations. This robust perfect adaptation feature is achieved in natural circuits by using integral control, a negative feedback strategy that performs mathematical integration to achieve

  • Exploiting evolution to design better cancer therapies

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: Our current approach to cancer treatment has been largely driven by finding molecular targets, those patients fortunate enough to have a targetable mutation will receive a fixed treatment schedule designed to deliver the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). These therapies generally achieve

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    [CANCELED] Approaches to understanding tumour-immune interactions

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    CANCELED due to unexpected circumstances This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: While the presence of immune cells within solid tumours was initially viewed positively, as the host fighting to rid itself of a foreign body, we now know that the tumour can manipulate immune cells so that

  • Stochastic processes as scientific instruments: efficient inference based on stochastic dynamical systems

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    This talk will be presented online. Zoom link: 709 120 4849 (pw: 1234) Abstract: Questions about the mechanistic operation of biological systems are naturally formulated as stochastic processes, but confronting such models with data can be challenging.  In this talk, I describe the essence of the difficulty, highlighting both the technical issues and the importance