QLS Seminar - Thursday, 29 November at 11h00
Quantitative Life Sciences
qls at ictp.it
Wed Nov 28 11:41:15 CET 2018
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!
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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
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