Graduate Student / Postdoc Seminar

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Mathematical models of cell migration and cell division

Speaker: Alex Mogilner, Courant Institute and Department of Biology, New York University

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Date: Friday, October 18, 2024, 1 p.m.

Synopsis:

Several questions of cell biology are fundamental for understanding life. One of them is: how do cells migrate inside living tissues? Another one: how do cells segregate chromosomes when they divide? We have no complete answers to either, but partial answers were pried from nature, by experiment, with invaluable help from physics and applied mathematics. I will present first a free-boundary PDE model of the simplest case of cell migration, then a couple of stochastic agent based models of mitosis, and end with discussing current math and bio challenges.