February lecture: Aleksandra Walczak

[Leo Zeitler]

The days get brighter and so do our brains. Join us for Aleksandra Walczak's lecture on

The scales of viral-host co-evolution

Feb 19, 5-6pm CET
Zoom link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82143087052?pwd=RsAxVb83Fx7NClm9ov5wLwZpxbnlME.1

Abstract:

Living systems often attempt to calculate and predict the future state of the environment. Given the stochastic nature of many biological systems how is that possible? Does host-pathogen co-evolution constrain the space viral trajectories? Aleksandra will show that co-evolution between immune systems and viruses in a finite-dimensional antigenic space can be described by an antigenic wave pushed forward and canalized by host-pathogen interactions. Since predicting the  future state of a viral environment requires weighing the trust in new observations against prior experiences, she will present a view of the host immune system as a dynamic Bayesian machinery that updates its memory repertoire by balancing evidence from new pathogen encounters against past experience of infection to predict and prepare for future threats. 

Further information:
Aleksandra Walczak is group leader of the Statistical Physics and Inference lab, hosted by the Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS (LPENS) at the Ecole normale supérieure. Her research focus is on the behaviour of strongly coupled nonlinear systems that are not in equilibrium, mostly inspired by existing biological solutions. Check out her websites https://sites.google.com/view/statbiophysens and https://www.phys.ens.fr/~awalczak/

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lzeitler [at] turing [dot] ac [dot] uk
gautham [dot] ganesh [at] cbs [dot] cnrs [dot] fr

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[Leo Zeitler]

Tune in next week for Aleksandra's lecture on

The scales of viral-host co-evolution

Feb 19, 5-6pm CET
Zoom link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82143087052?pwd=RsAxVb83Fx7NClm9ov5wLwZpxbnlME.1

[Leo Zeitler]

Tell everyone you're not free THIS THURSDAY cos you wanna see Aleksandra's lecture on

The scales of viral-host co-evolution

Feb 19, 5-6pm CET
Zoom link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82143087052?pwd=RsAxVb83Fx7NClm9ov5wLwZpxbnlME.1

[Leo Zeitler]

You couldn't tune in? Do not dis despair! Aleksandra's talk is now uploaded to our Youtube channel (unfortunately without the presenter video stream, sorry about that!)

https://youtu.be/m6wP_q7tQF4