Rama Ranganathan (UT Southwestern): Finding the ‘Effective Variables’ in Biological Systems

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Talk Overview: Biological systems span an enormous range of scales - from proteins to cells to tissues to ecosystems. Rama Ranganathan asserts that these systems are difficult to understand because their components are heterogeneous, cooperative, and modular. He identifies three major questions facing computational biologists as they try to mathematically model the behavior and evolution of biological system components.

Speaker Biography: Rama Ranganathan is Professor and Director of the Green Center for Systems Biology at UT Southwestern and is affiliated with the Departments of Biophysics and Pharmacology. Ranganathan’s lab uses computational and experimental methods to study the structure, function, and evolution of proteins at the atomic level. At the cellular level, his lab studies signal transduction in photoreceptor cells in the Drosophila eye. In both cases, the goal is to understand the evolutionary design of signaling systems.

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