Jon Alberts Actin Up Again

[Thomas Daniel <danielt@u.washington.edu>]

WE MEET AGAIN FOR THE ULTIMATE WINTER QUARTER EXPERIENCE


JON ALBERTS SPEAKS IN 114 KINCAID AT 1230  WED AND FRI


BE THERE!~!!!!





Title:    "Modeling actin networks in cell and Listeria motility"  OR "A

Quicktime movie's worth a thousand words"

Abstract:
    This is some of that "systems biology at the cellular level" that
you may have heard about.  I've been working on a computational model of

cell (and Listeria Monocytogenes) motility with the aim to go from a
qualitative description (e.g.  this thing does this which causes this
other thing to do this, and so on) to a quantitative analysis by
simulating, to the best of my ability, the growth of actin networks and
their interaction with other bodies that lead to motility of Listeria,
polystyrene beads coated with certain proteins, and most importantly the

cell.
    Wednesday will have me talking about the biological, physical, and
computational modeling issues while Friday will be more specifically
devoted to my particular model and its current output.
    For better or worse this talk contains a high-density of Quicktime
movies... bring popcorn if you like.




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• To: danielt@u.washington.edu
• Subject: my abstract
• From: Jonathan Alberts <jalberts@speakeasy.org>
• Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:48:44 -0700
• Reply-To: jalberts@speakeasy.org

Hi Tom,
    Here's my abstract for Mathbio.. forgot to send it to you last week.



Title:    "Modeling actin networks in cell and Listeria motility"  OR "A
Quicktime movie's worth a thousand words"

Abstract:
    This is some of that "systems biology at the cellular level" that
you may have heard about.  I've been working on a computational model of
cell (and Listeria Monocytogenes) motility with the aim to go from a
qualitative description (e.g.  this thing does this which causes this
other thing to do this, and so on) to a quantitative analysis by
simulating, to the best of my ability, the growth of actin networks and
their interaction with other bodies that lead to motility of Listeria,
polystyrene beads coated with certain proteins, and most importantly the
cell.
    Wednesday will have me talking about the biological, physical, and
computational modeling issues while Friday will be more specifically
devoted to my particular model and its current output.
    For better or worse this talk contains a high-density of Quicktime
movies... bring popcorn if you like.

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