1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Plumeria & Tiare (Salon 9 & 10)
It is increasingly becoming recognized that programmed cell death (apoptosis) is all-pervasive in biological systems. The delicate dynamic balance between proliferation and death is crucial in determining the behaviour of tissues, nowhere more so than in the reproductive and immune systems which can exhibit particularly high levels of both. The control and consequences of such a balance are difficult to determine by conventional experimental approaches, and can benefit from mathematical analysis. The speakers in this minisymposium will present a selection of different mathematical approaches to modelling proliferation and death in reproduction and immunology, and will highlight the biological and mathematical issues involved.
Organizers: Jaroslav Stark and Andrew Yates