The complexity of living: when biology meets theory

The complexity of living: when biology meets theory

Introduction Like the previous meeting in this series in 2007 (Bronfman & Kapon, 2007), Spatial 2009: Overcoming Distance in Signaling Networks focused on understanding how cells and organisms are able to integrate signals in space and time. This broad topic was addressed by a multidisciplinary line up of speakers from diverse fields including cell biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, phys...

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When cell biology meets theory

Cell biologists now have tools and knowledge to generate useful quantitative data. But how can we make sense of these data, and are we measuring the correct parameters? Moreover, how can we test hypotheses quantitatively? To answer these questions, the theory of physics is required and is essential to the future of quantitative cell biology.

Control theory meets synthetic biology.

The past several years have witnessed an increased presence of control theoretic concepts in synthetic biology. This review presents an organized summary of how these control design concepts have been applied to tackle a variety of problems faced when building synthetic biomolecular circuits in living cells. In particular, we describe success stories that demonstrate how simple or more elaborat...

When graph theory meets knot theory

Since the early 1980s, graph theory has been a favorite topic for undergraduate research due to its accessibility and breadth of applications. By the early 1990s, knot theory was recognized as another such area of mathematics, in large part due to C. Adams’ text, The Knot Book. In this paper, we discuss the intersection of these two fields and provide a survey of current work in this area, much...