学术报告第201322期

Title of Lecture: MODELLING REAL-LIFE CELLULAR  PROCESSES

Presenter: Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, Professor, University of  Seville, Spain 

Date: 11^th November, 2013 (Monday), 15:30 –  16:15

Place: Meeting Room 311, Building South No.1  (南一楼中311会议室)

邀请方：“多谱信息处理技术”国家级重点实验室

CV:  Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez is a member of the Academy of Europe (欧洲科学院院士), a full professor in the  Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of  Seville, Spain, where he is the head of the Research Group on Natural Computing.  He has published twelve books in computer science and mathematics, and over 250  scientific papers in international journals (collaborating with researchers  worldwide). He is a member of the editorial board of four ISI journals, and he  has been the first scientific awarded with “Important Contributions to Membrane  Computing” under the auspices of the European Molecular Computing,  2008.

Abstract of Lecture: Mathematical models are a modern tool for scientific  investigation. They have emerged as a powerful, indispensable tool for studying  a variety of problems in scientific research, allowing us to analyze them and  make predictions. A computational bio-inspired framework to model cellular  processes is presented in this talk. The semantics is captured through an  extension of the Gillespie algorithm. This paradigm is illustrated with a model  of the ``quorum sensing'' in bacteria Vibrio fischeri. These bacteria exhibit  coordinated behavior which allows an entire population of bacteria to regulate  the expression of specific genes in a coordinated way depending on the size of  the population.