QLS Seminar - Thursday, 29 November at 11h00

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES  SEMINAR

Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 11:00,
ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building, via Beirut 2


Speaker: Soumen Roy, Dept. of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata

Title:  Complex Systems: From networks to microbes

Abstract:
In this seminar, consisting of two parts,  we present an outline of our
recent work in the area of networks and microbial systems.

We propose a new edge based network metric and show its importance for all
networks. We also show how networks can be successfully applied to a
wide variety of problems ranging from information retrieval and
non-invasive diagnostics to structural optogenetics and adaptive
landscapes.

Eliminating mycobacterial diseases through prevailing antibiotic-based strategies has had limited success, due to
the rise of drug-resistant strains. Phage therapy is an interesting
potential alternative. We show how a strategic coupling of experimental
data -- with theoretical techniques drawn from delay differential
equations, graph theory, discrete math and statistics -- sheds valuable
insight into secondary host lethality and phage resistance in such
systems.

Lastly, we provide a brief glimpse of other ongoing experimental and theoretical activity in our lab.

Indico web page:http://indico.ictp.it/event/8805/

Everyone interested is most welcome to attend!

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