Mathematical Cell Biology Graduate (Web-Based) Summer Course
Topic
Tentative list of topics
Pattern formation and cellular polarization
Intracellular signaling
Microscopy methods and biological data analysis
Biopolymers and assembly kinetics
Buckling, bending, stretching, twisting: mechanical models
for cells.
Microtubule and actin: structure and dynamics
Actin-based polymerization ratchet
Molecular motors
Mechanics of cell division
Bacterial chemotaxis
Motility of animal cells and cell shape
Continuum, discrete, and simulation models of cell
phenomena
Speakers
Details
The course will be taught at UBC (Math 563) as an online course, with web-based material, archived and live lectures and interactive discussion sessions.
The relevant biological topics and mathematical background needed to understand current research in mathematical cell biology will be taught as part of this intensive course. Some background in (undergraduate) differential equations (ODEs, PDEs) will be assumed.
Interested students can take this course for credit at UBC (or at the affiliated western universities under the Western Dean's agreement).
Additional Information
For more information please contact Leah Keshet at keshet@math.ubc.ca
Or visit http://www.math.ubc.ca/~keshet/MCB2012/
Instructor: Leah Edelstein-Keshet
Guest Lecturers: Dimitrios Vavylonis, Jun Allard, William R. Holmes, Raibatak (Dodo) Das
(with seminars by Daniel Coombs, Eric Cytrynbaum and UBC faculty)
