Mathematical Cell Biology

Description

The course will be taught at UBC (Math 563) as an online course, with web-based material, archived and live lectures and interactive discussion sessions.

The relevant biological topics and mathematical background needed to understand current research in mathematical cell biology will be taught as part of this intensive course. Some background in (undergraduate) differential equations (ODEs, PDEs) will be assumed.

Interested students can take this course for credit at UBC (or at the affiliated western universities under the Western Dean's agreement).

Topic
Tentative list of topics

  • Pattern formation and cellular polarization
  • Intracellular signaling
  • Microscopy methods and biological data analysis
  • Biopolymers and assembly kinetics
  • Buckling, bending, stretching, twisting: mechanical models for cells.
  • Microtubule and actin: structure and dynamics
  • Actin-based polymerization ratchet
  • Molecular motors
  • Mechanics of cell division
  • Bacterial chemotaxis
  • Motility of animal cells and cell shape
  • Continuum, discrete, and simulation models of cell phenomena

Links
More information is available on Prof. Keshet's personal website

Title Speaker Datesort descending
Spatial Segregation of Polarity Determinants in Embryos of the Nematode Worm C. elegans Adriana Dawes
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 30 Hildor
Introduction Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 1, 2012 - 4:30pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 2 Raibatak (Dodo) Das May 1, 2012 - 5:45pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 3 Raibatak (Dodo) Das May 2, 2012 - 5:00pm
Simple biochemical motifs (1, 2, & 3) Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 2, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 5 Raibatak (Dodo) Das May 3, 2012 - 5:00pm
Switches, Oscillators (and the Cell Cycle) Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 3, 2012 - 6:15pm
A Particle Based Model for Healthy and Malaria Infected Red Blood Cells James J. Feng May 3, 2012 - 9:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 7 Raibatak (Dodo) Das May 4, 2012 - 5:00pm
Pattern Formation of Proteins on the Surface of a Biological Cell Cory Simon May 4, 2012 - 6:45pm
Small GTPases and cell polarization Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 4, 2012 - 8:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 9 Jun Allard May 7, 2012 - 5:00pm
An Excitable Contractile Cell Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 7, 2012 - 9:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 12 Jun Allard May 8, 2012 - 5:11pm
Introduction to polymerization kinetics Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 8, 2012 - 6:15pm
Polymer Size Distributions (continued) Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 9, 2012 - 6:00pm
Microtubules, - polymer size distribution - and other balance equation models Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 9, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 13 Jun Allard May 9, 2012 - 6:35pm
Models of T cell activation based on TCR-pMHC bond kinetics Daniel Coombs May 10, 2012 - 9:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 17 Jun Allard May 11, 2012 - 5:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 18 Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 11, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 19 Raibatak (Dodo) Das May 14, 2012 - 5:00pm
Diffusion, Reaction, and Biological pattern formation Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 14, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 21 Raibatak (Dodo) Das May 15, 2012 - 5:00pm
Diffusion, Reaction, and Biological pattern formation (continued 2 of 3) Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 15, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 23 William Holmes May 15, 2012 - 6:30pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 24 Raibatak (Dodo) Das May 16, 2012 - 5:00pm
Diffusion, Reaction, and Biological pattern formation (continued 3 of 3) Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 16, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 26 William Holmes May 16, 2012 - 6:45pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 27 William Holmes May 17, 2012 - 6:15pm
Self Organization in Cells - How to Use Proteins to Solve a Geometry Problem Eric Cytrynbaum May 17, 2012 - 9:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 28 Raibatak (Dodo) Das May 18, 2012 - 5:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Student Lecture 11 Hildur Knutsdottir May 18, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 29 William Holmes May 18, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 31 Dimitrios Vavylonis May 22, 2012 - 5:00pm
Models for Cell Shape and Actin Filament Distributions Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 22, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 33 Dimitrios Vavylonis May 23, 2012 - 5:00pm
Cell Polarity Models & Simulating Cell Motility Using the Cellular Potts Model (CPM) Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 23, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 35 Dimitrios Vavylonis May 24, 2012 - 5:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 36 Dimitrios Vavylonis May 24, 2012 - 6:15pm
Mechanical Simulations of Cell Motility Leah Edelstein-Keshet May 25, 2012 - 6:15pm
From Computer Graphics to Computational Biology Francois Faure May 29, 2012 - 5:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Student Lecture 8 Naghmeh Rezal May 30, 2012 - 5:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Student Lecture 2 Rebecca Hiller May 30, 2012 - 5:30pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Student Lecture 3 Meghan Dutot May 30, 2012 - 6:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Student Lecture 6 Tenghu Wu May 30, 2012 - 6:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Student Lecture 7 Jia Guo May 30, 2012 - 6:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Student Lecture 9 Brendan Thrasher May 30, 2012 - 6:00pm
Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Student Lecture 10 Amanda Swan May 30, 2012 - 6:00pm