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Lecture by Luis Serrano in May 2017 at the IRI Life Sciences as part of the IRI-Schering-Colloquium “Life in Numbers”

Lecture by Luis Serrano in May 2017 at the IRI Life Sciences as part of the IRI-Schering-Colloquium “Life in Numbers”
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IRI-Schering Colloquium “Life in Numbers”

Integrative Research Institute of Life Sciences

IRI-Schering Colloquium “Life in Numbers”

Integrative Research Institute of Life Sciences

During the 2017 summer term, the Integrative Research Institute of Life Sciences (IRI) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, with support from the Ernst Schering Foundation, hosts the colloquium “Life in Numbers.” The colloquium features lectures by outstanding international scientists who present their current research in the field of quantitative biology.

The understanding of the biological complexity of ecosystems, whole organisms through the level of single cells requires quantitative thinking along with empirical testing and predictive theory. Common mathematical themes of e.g. spatial and temporal scales or stochastic and dynamic processes play a role in many if not all biological questions. The central goal of Quantitative Biology is the deduction of fundamental principles of living systems and diseases. To make biology quantitative and predictive, it draws upon math-based reasoning and advanced instrumentation from physical science and engineering.

The IRI Colloquium is an event series focusing on a different topic each semester. Internationally renowned scientists are invited to provide insight into their current research. In addition to being able to participate in the discussions that are part of the lectures, young scientists are also given the opportunity for individual conversations to talk about and receive inspiration for their own research. The Ernst Schering Foundation supports the “Life in Numbers” colloquium during the 2017 summer term, since it addresses important aspects of basic research in the life sciences and encourages the cross-disciplinary networking of Berlin-based scientists.

The IRI Colloquium is aimed at students, doctoral candidates, researchers as well as the interested public.

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Side events 

Is it possible to computer model a cell?

May 04, 2017, 4 p.m.
Luis Serrano (CRG Barcelona)

The same, only different: how does the cytoskeleton adapt to meiosis-specific functions?

June 01, 2017, 4 p.m.
Peter Lénárt (EMBL Heidelberg)

Microtubules, motors and morphogenesis

June 22, 2017, 4 p.m.
Joe Howard (Yale University)

Probing intracellular kinetics at single molecule sensitivity

September 07, 2017, 4 p.m.
Johan Elf (Uppsala University)

Elf is particularly interested in how key steps in transcription, translation and replication are regulated in the intracellular environment and at what level of physical detail these processes need to be modelled to describe their function in the living cell. To answer these questions he uses state-of-the-art single molecule microscopy methods to study kinetics and diffusion in living cells.

Drunken Sailors, Coin Flips and How to Read Genomes

October 12, 2017, 4 p.m.
Rob Phillips (Caltech)

Rob Phillips will show how simple tools from statistical physics can be used to predict the level of expression of different genes, and describe precision measurements used to test those predictions. In addition, he will describe unexpected ways of using the physics of information transfer first developed at Bell Labs for thinking about telephone communications to try to decipher the meaning of the regulatory features of genomes.

IRI-Schering Colloquium "Cell Communication" 

Seminar — Series

The IRI Colloquium during the 2017/18 winter term will focus on “Cell Communication”.

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