Speaker
Prof.
Juan Manuel Pedraza
(Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes)
Description
Basic methods of statistical physics have proven extremely useful in the modelling of enzyme dynamics, but now the concepts of statistical physics have become important tools in many areas of systems biology, such as protein folding, site search on DNA, gene regulation, evolutionary dynamics or information processing. I will present an overview of the use of the concepts (more than the mathematical tools) in different areas of biological modeling, with emphasis on how collective action arises and how cells can deal with imperfect information about their environment.
Primary author
Prof.
Juan Manuel Pedraza
(Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes)
