Mathematical Cell Biology; May 2012
Homework assignments:
- Homework and activities for Week 4:
Your main activity will be to decide on a topic for your project
- Here are some Tips for your project presentation.
- Some optional sets of Homework. NOTE: It is not expected that you will have time to do these before the course ends. These are provided as additional material to support your learning of the concepts in the future. However, submitting some of this HW by June 1 will be credited towards your course grade.
- Set 1 Solving the Grimm-Mogilner actin equations (see first Keshet lecture of Week 4).
- Set 2 Local Pulse Analysis exercises (provided by Bill Holmes: see last entry on his web page)
- Set 3 Dodo's data fitting problems. See Week 3 for slides and MatLab files. Here are the needed data files:
integrin_YFP_cpz.dat
DoseResponse.dat
integrin_YFP_untreated.dat
Epidemic.dat
Lectures and Course Material
You can find the topics covered, lecture notes, and links to material in the table below.
Week 4
Guest lecturers for Week 4: Dr Dimitrios Vavylonis (Lehigh University)
Link to Material
| Dates | Topics | Rough Notes | Other Material | Lecture (video) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22-25 | Dimitrios Vavylonis Lectures |
Lecture Notes | See MathTube | |
| May 22-25 | Keshet Lectures |
Slides: Lecture 13 Lecture 14a Lecture 14b Lecture 15 |
See MathTube | |
| May 22-25 | Cell Polarization | Here | Slides | |
| May 22-25 | Hans Meinhardt Cell Orientation |
Link to site | ||
| May 22-25 | Links to Cell Shape papers |
Bottino et al Herant Dembo 3D Maree et al (2012) Rubinstein, Mogilner Movie 1 and Movie 2 Hecht et al 2011 |
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| May 22-25 | Traveling Waves (RD) | Here | Slides | Traveling waves 1 (7:02 min) Travelling Waves 2 (4:11 min) |
| May 22-25 | Wave Pinning | Here | Slides | WP:Derivation of eqs (5:49 min) WP:Explanation (10:00min) |
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