QLS seminar (Soumen Roy) in person on 26 October 2022 at 11.00 CET

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

Dear All,

On Wednesday, 26 October at 11:00 CET, Soumen Roy (Bose Institute, 
Kolkata, India) will give a seminar  titled:

*Games, Graphs, and Germs *

_Abstract:_

This talk discusses combining experimental and theoretical approaches 
(drawn from graph theory and game theory) to study microbes in diverse 
scenarios.

First, we present a general, rigorous mathematical framework to address 
mutagenesis -- from the level of a single protein to the organism level. 
We theoretically test the effectiveness of our measure in diverse 
microbial species to capture the reported effects of well-studied 
mutations and predict new ones. We further examine the usefulness of our 
procedure on a mutant of /Mycobacterium smegmatis/ mc2155, generated in 
our lab, which is resistant to the mycobacteriophage D29 and exhibits 
significant phenotypic alterations [1].

Using simple game theoretical modeling, we then show how mass testing 
and proactiveness affect epidemic spreading [2].

Along the way, we also show that games on scale-free networks may not 
witness cooperationto the wide extent, as commonly thought [3].


_References:_
[1] Bioinformatics [Oxford],  37,  213-220 (2021)
[2] J. Indian Institute of Science [Springer], 101, 371-380 (2021)
[3] Europhysics Letters [EPL], 134, 60002 (2021)

Indico webpage: https://indico.ictp.it/event/10098/
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__The seminar will take place in the Common area, second floor, old 
SISSA building_

You are all most welcome to attend!

Best regards,
Erica

-- 
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