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Sep
8
2021

CDB Seminar Series Presents: "Quantitative comparisons between models and data to provide new insights in cell and developmental biology," Ruth Baker, PhD, University of Oxford, UK

Ruth Baker, PhD

When: Wednesday, September 8, 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT

Where: Online

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Sarah Alber   (312) 503-7958

Group: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

CDB EXPERTS-IN-THE-FIELD SEMINAR PRESENTATION: 

"Quantitative comparisons between models and data to provide new insights in cell and developmental biology"

Ruth Baker, PhD

Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford

Oxford, UK

 

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

2:00-3:00 PM. *SPECIAL TIME*

Zoom Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/91244254659

Meeting ID: 912 4425 4659

Password: Available upon request from cdb@northwestern.edu

Dial In Number: +1 312 626 6799 US
+44 330 088 5830 UK

 

Abstract: 

Simple mathematical models have had remarkable successes in biology, framing how we understand a host of mechanisms and processes. However, with the advent of a host of new experimental technologies, the last ten years has seen an explosion in the amount and types of quantitative data now being generated. This sets a new challenge for the field – to develop, calibrate and analyse new models to interpret these data. In this talk, Dr. Baker will use examples relating to intracellular transport and cell motility to showcase how quantitative comparisons between models and data can help tease apart subtle details of biological mechanisms.

Relevant Publications: 

T. P. Prescott, K. Zhu, M. Zhao and R. E. Baker (2021). Quantifying the impact of electric fields on single-cell motility. Biophys. J. S0006-3495(21):00536-1.

J. U. Harrison, R. M. Parton, I. Davis and R. E. Baker (2019). Testing models of mRNA localization reveals robustness regulated by reducing transport between cells. Biophys. J. 117(11):2154-2165. 

 

Host: Dr. Yogesh Goyal
Incoming Assistant Professor, Spring 2022
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology    

 

For more information please contact cdb@northwestern.edu
Zoom link sent via listserv. To subcribe to the CDB Seminar Series listserve please visit https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/cdb/about/contact.html#listserv 

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