Imaging Seminar March 24, 2015

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Cellular Telephone Games:  How Biological Networks Cope With Noisy Signal Transmission Speaker: Michael Hinczewski (Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University Physics Department) Abstract: Living cells make crucial decisions --- whether to grow, divide, die --- based on external signaling molecules in their environment.  The biochemical networks which transmit and...

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Mathematics of Life Sciences Seminar (MLSS) March 18, 2015

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Mathematical Model of Volume Phase Transition in Polyelectrolyte Gels Speaker: Lingxing Yao (Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University MAMS Department) Abstract: It is well known that hydrogels are made of cross linked polymer networks that are capable of absorbing large amounts of water; they can be present in a swollen or...

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