Title of Lecture: MODELLING REAL-LIFE CELLULAR PROCESSES
Presenter: Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, Professor, University of Seville, Spain
Date: 11th November, 2013 (Monday), 15:30 – 16:15
Place: Meeting Room 311, Building South No.1 (南一楼中311会议室)
邀请方:“多谱信息处理技术”国家级重点实验室
CV: Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez is a member of the Academy of Europe (欧洲科学院院士), a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Seville, Spain, where he is the head of the Research Group on Natural Computing. He has published twelve books in computer science and mathematics, and over 250 scientific papers in international journals (collaborating with researchers worldwide). He is a member of the editorial board of four ISI journals, and he has been the first scientific awarded with “Important Contributions to Membrane Computing” under the auspices of the European Molecular Computing, 2008.
Abstract of Lecture: Mathematical models are a modern tool for scientific investigation. They have emerged as a powerful, indispensable tool for studying a variety of problems in scientific research, allowing us to analyze them and make predictions. A computational bio-inspired framework to model cellular processes is presented in this talk. The semantics is captured through an extension of the Gillespie algorithm. This paradigm is illustrated with a model of the ``quorum sensing'' in bacteria Vibrio fischeri. These bacteria exhibit coordinated behavior which allows an entire population of bacteria to regulate the expression of specific genes in a coordinated way depending on the size of the population.