Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Seminar

Thursday, January 18, 12:30--1:50pm

DEN 304


Modeling the pathways and regulatory dynamics of the salt-loving extremophile Halobacterium NRC-1

David Reiss, Institute for Systems Biology

I work with a group studying an "extremophile", Halobacterium, that thrives in water that is 10x saltier than ocean water. Our group has collected global measurements of many different types of biological molecules (DNA sequence, mRNA, protein, etc.) and interactions between those molecules for this organism under a wide range of environmental stimuli. My research involves the development of statistical models to integrate and effectively describe these different levels of biological information, and of efficient computational procedures to solve those models in a way that will be predictive of future (unseen) responses by Halobacterium. In this talk, I will summarize some aspects of my work, both past and currently in-progress.

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To contact the speaker, e-mail him at this address: dreiss {at} systemsbiology {dot} org