ACMS Seminar (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:53:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Burke <burke@math.washington.edu>
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Subject: ACMS Seminar
Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences
Undergraduate Seminar
Title: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Birthdays
Speaker: Oliver Will, Statistics
Time: 3:30--4:30pm, Friday, February 21, 2003
Place: Thomson 134
Abstract:
Cystic fibrosis patients are at risk to infection by the bacterium
Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The UW Genome Center has begun sequencing
a number of strains of the bacterium to suggest new therapeutic strategies
for treating infected individuals. In one experiment, many colonies of
Pseudomonas, each with one gene shut off, have been grown.
However, there are some genes for which they have not grown colonies.
Their experiment can be simulated with a simple probability model that is
a generalization of the birthday problem (Given n people, what
is the probability that at least 2 will have the same birthday?). A
question that must be answered is whether the number of genes they are
missing can be expected under the probability model. I will attempt to
answer this question.
http://www.ms.washington.edu/acms/seminars/W03/schedule.html
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