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MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Microbes
MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Microbes
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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Jul 14, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this podcast I talk to Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington about the mathematics of microbes.
Bergstrom is a mathematical biologist who probes the abstract nature of life itself. We talk about how life uses information, and how information can evolve. But in Bergstrom's hands, these abstractions shed light on very real concerns in medicine, from the way that viruses jam our immune system's communication systems to to the best ways to fight antibiotic resistance.
Publications:
Mapping Change in Large Networks [html] [pdf]
The transmission sense of information [pdf]
Dealing with deception in biology [pdf]
Bergstrom is a mathematical biologist who probes the abstract nature of life itself. We talk about how life uses information, and how information can evolve. But in Bergstrom's hands, these abstractions shed light on very real concerns in medicine, from the way that viruses jam our immune system's communication systems to to the best ways to fight antibiotic resistance.
Publications:
Mapping Change in Large Networks [html] [pdf]
The transmission sense of information [pdf]
Dealing with deception in biology [pdf]
Released:
Jul 14, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
MTS2 - Seth Darst - RNA polymerase: Seth Darst is a professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Rockefeller University in New York city, where his research centers on RNA polymerase, the enzyme at the heart of a cell’s ability to make protein from a set of DNA instructions. In this interview by Meet the Microbiologist