Applied Math Seminar
Spring Quarter 2007
3:15 p.m.
Sloan Mathematics Corner
Building 380, Room 380-C


Friday, May 25, 2007

Qing Nie
Departments of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine

Specificity and Robustness of Cell Signalling


Abstract:

Intra-cellular and cell-to-cell signalling are the fundamental biological processes. In this talk, through examples I shall study specificity of signalling pathways in yeast and robustness of morphogen systems in Drosophila embryo. In particular, I shall discuss mathematical and computational challenges associated with such study, and present a new class of numerical algorithms for reaction-diffusion equations.