Transcript Program

Joint Department of Mathematics and
Microbial Sciences Research Theme
Mathematical Modelling in Microbiology
Wednesday 4th December 2013
Bennett Link Lecture Theatre
2:00pm – 5:30pm
14:00- 14:05
Welcome Marco Oggioni (Genetics, Leicester)
14:05 – 14:25 Dov Stekel (Integrative Systems Biology, Nottingham)
“The dynamic balance of import and export on zinc homeostasis in Escherichia coli”
14:25 – 14:45 Christopher Bayliss (Genetics, Leicester) & Michael Tretyakov (Mathematics, Nottingham)
“Phase Variation”
14:45 – 15:05 Miguel Cámara (Biomolecular Sciences, Nottingham)
“Computer modelling of quorum sensing systems”
15:05 – 15:25 Tom Walsh (Genetics, Leicester)
“Some genomics problems in yeast”
15:25 – 15:45 Refreshments (Ground Floor Foyer)
The day will explore the panorama
of existing interactions that exist
locally between the 2 research
fields of Mathematical Modelling
and Microbiology. It will also offer
you the chance to share your
knowledge and make new contacts.
15:45 – 16:05 Alexander Gorban (Mathematics, Leicester) A. Zinovyev (Inst. Curie, Paris) E. Smirnova (Siberian
Federal University, Russia)
“Three small studies in mining biological data: 1) Cluster structures in bacterial genomes;n2) Two
straight lines in bacterial genome statistics; 3) Adaptation and disadaptation of populations:
measurement of ecological stress.”
16:05 – 16:25 Marco Oggioni (Genetics, Leicester) & Alessandro Boianelli (Engineering, Siena)
“A non-linear deterministic model for regulation of diauxic lag on cellobiose by the
pneumococcal multidomain transcriptional regulator CelR”
16:25 – 16:45 Andrey Morozov (Mathematics, Leicester)
(i) Predation on infected host promotes pathogens' biodiversity
(ii) Patterns of patchy spread in multi-species reaction-diffusion population models
16:45 – 17:30 Ideas and Discussion
• Chris Turkington: “Influence on phage of phase variable restriction enzymes”
• Chiara Mocenni: “Within host evolution in invasive infection”
• Hasan Yesilkaya: “A systems approach to galactose metabolism”
• Martha Clokie: “Bacteria – phage interactions”
ALL WELCOME