[Biomedical-cybernetics] BNMC seminar: Feedback and Control in Biological Circuit Design

[Johannes W. Dietrich]

Dear colleagues,

attached please find an invitation that may be of interest for those 
of you being in California next week.

Yours,

J. W. D.


At 17:39 Uhr -0700 04.11.2010, Linda Taddeo wrote:
>Richard M. Murray
>Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and
>Bioengineering,
>Caltech
>
>Wednesday, November 10, 2010
>2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
>Hameetman Auditorium
>(in the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, south of California)
>Refreshments at 1:45 PM
>
>Biological systems make use of feedback in an extraordinary number of ways,
>on scales ranging from molecules to cells to organisms to ecosystems.  In
>this talk I will discuss the use of concepts from control and dynamical
>systems in the analysis and design of biological feedback circuits at the
>molecular level.  After a brief survey of relevant concepts from control
>theory and synthetic biology, I will present some recent results that
>combine modeling, identification, design and experimental implementation of
>biological feedback circuits.  These results include the use of intrinsic
>noise for system identification in transcriptional regulatory networks,
>development of RNA-based, in vitro circuits for regulating the rates of
>transcription of two independent genetic sequences, and design of dynamics
>of for an in vivo oscillator using transcriptional delay.  Using these
>results as examples, I will discuss some of the open problems and research
>challenges in the area of biomolecular feedback systems.
>

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-- Dr. Johannes W. Dietrich, M.D.
-- Laboratory XU44, Endocrine Research
-- Medical Hospital I, Bergmannsheil University Hospitals
-- Ruhr University of Bochum
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