QLS guest seminar - Tuesday 26 April

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES GUEST SEMINAR

Tuesday, 26 April at 14:00

ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building

Speaker: Rami PUGATCH - Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Raymond 
and Beverly Salck School of physics and astronomy, exact science 
faculty, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Title: " Temporal organization of cellular self-replication "

Abstract:
What determines the growth rate of a cell? Is there a common law that 
describes the connection between size at birth and growth rate for all 
balanced-growing cells? How exponential growth at all possible? In this 
talk I will offer a novel systems analysis perspective on these 
biological questions. I will explain two generic methods to accelerate a 
complex assembly process beyond its critical path duration - the 
duration of the longest serial process that is bound to occur. I will 
then apply these ideas to the process of cellular self-replication and 
derive a novel type of growth law relating the doubling rate of a cell 
with the number of progenies concurrently under production, and the 
critical path duration.

Web page: http://indico.ictp.it/event/7840/

-- 
Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
e-mail:qls at ictp.it