AMUSE
Date: February 6, 2019
Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: BLOC 220
Speaker: Dr. Ivan Ivanov, Department of Vet Med - Physiology & Pharmacology, TAMU
Title: Mathematical Models of Gene Regulatory Networks
Abstract: The Central Dogma of the Molecular Biology describes the flow of information in the living cell. While the complex biochemical reactions underlying the cell functions can be modeled by stochastic differential equations those models have very little practical value, especially in situations where one would like to control for undesired cell phenotypes, e.g. cancer. We will discuss how the complex biochemical reactions can be projected onto the gene plane. The resulting gene regulatory network provides a fruitful ground for mathematical formalizations of the cell regulatory dynamics. One of the potential mathematical models, the Boolean Network model, will be discussed in detail.