| | Decision Making in Living Cells | |
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| | Illinois Professor Ido Golding |
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| | Date | | Oct 3, 2009 |
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| | Time | | 10:15 am
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| | Location | | 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics, 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana |
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| | Cost | | None |
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| | Sponsor | | Physics Department |
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| | Contact | | Toni Pitts |
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| | E-Mail | | tpitts@illinois.edu |
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| | Phone | | 217-244-2948 |
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| | Event type | | Outreach |
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| | Views | | 9526 |
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| In every living organism, the cell is the fundamental unit of life. Half a century of biological study has produced the genetic blueprints of many organisms, but there is a growing understanding that this knowledge is insufficient to understand life. The cell is not a static entity, but rather, a complex and dynamic one: information from a continuously changing environment is processed by the cell into a multitude of responses. In this talk we will focus on how cells adapt to their environment, and make life-changing decisions by dynamically controlling the expression of key genes. In particular, cells must decide what to eat, what lifestyle to adopt, and even whether to live or die. We will illuminate the process of decision-making by looking at these questions in the bacterial model organism E. coli. We will also indicate how the motifs elucidated in this very simple organism carry over into higher forms of life, including ourselves. |
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