Speaker: Dr. Vahid Shahrezaei
Postdoctoral fellow
The Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Local Host: Prof. Reza Ejtehadi
Title: Non-genetic individuality: modeling stochastic gene expression in single cells
Time: Saturday, June 21st, 2008.
Location: Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
All biological organisms are unique. Most of the variation in the population is genetic. However, organisms and cells that share a common genetic background still show significant variation. In this talk I discuss recent experimental evidence for stochastic effects in gene expression that contributes to variation in cell populations. I discuss two sources of the noise, intrinsic and extrinsic and I describe how one can model each type of stochasticity.
