| Description: | [DPS Seminar] Prof. Sidhartha Goyal (Department of Physics, University of Toronto) -- Competition across scales in biology |
| Date: | Tuesday, Apr 16, 2024 |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Venue: | Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre |
| Details: | Many biological phenomena emerge from interaction and competition between its parts. I will share some examples across biological scales where data-driven theory can reveal new rules of biological competition. At the molecular scale competition between mitochondrial genomes within budding yeast depends on genome architecture; dynamics of adaptive immunity in microbes reveal different modalities of competition and coexistence of bacteria and its phages; in mammals cellular reprogramming may be driven by elite clones, and tumor response to drugs is driven by "epigenetic" switching. Going beyond, I will present some ideas on understanding dynamical systems that govern cell fate dynamics and if competition may play a role in it. |
| Calendar: | Seminar Calendar (entered by rajni) |