Abstract: The driving passion of molecular cell biologists is to understand the molecular mechanisms that control important aspects of cell physiology, but this ambition is - paradoxically - limited by the very wealth of molecular details currently known about these mechanisms. Their complexity overwhelms our intuitive notions of how molecular regulatory networks might respond under …

Abstract: Cell growth, DNA replication, mitosis and division are the fundamental processes by which life is passed on from one generation of eukaryotic cells to the next. The eukaryotic cell cycle is intrinsically a periodic process but not so much a ‘clock’ as a ‘copy machine’, making new daughter cells as warranted. Cells growing under …

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Abstract: Cellular, chemical, and population processes are all often represented via networks that describe the interactions between the different population types (typically called the "species"). If the counts of the species are low, then these systems are often modeled as continuous-time Markov chains on the d-dimensional integer lattice (with d being the number of species), …

Abstract: We’re all familiar with sleep, but how can we mathematically model it? And what determines how long and when we sleep? In this talk I’ll introduce the nonsmooth coupled oscillator systems that form the basis of current models of sleep-wake regulation and discuss their dynamical behaviour. I will describe how we are using models …

Cells make individual fate decisions through linear and nonlinear regulation of gene network, generating diverse dynamics from a single reaction pathway. In this colloquium, I will present two topics of our recent work on signaling dynamics at cellular and patient levels. The first example is about the initial value of the model, as a mechanism …