COMPLEXITY IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Code 1139I
Credits 4
Learning outcomes
Course syllabus:
(1) Biological networks (examples in system biology: metabolic networks, interactome, regulatory and signalling networks; biological neural networks; networks in ecology and epidemiology
(2) Complex spatio-temporal dynamics in biology (oscilations, excitability, bistability; sinchronization in biological systems: neural networks; spatio-temporal chaos: cardiac fibrillation
(3) Analysis of complex biosignals (deterministic and stochastic signals; statistical properties; non-lineal time-series analysis of series temporalis)
(4) Self-organization in biological systems (morphogenesis; self-assembly: protein folding, membrane formation); growth processes: chemotaxis, tumour growth)
(5) Collective motion and active matter (flocking, swarming and herd; cell migration)
(1) Biological networks (examples in system biology: metabolic networks, interactome, regulatory and signalling networks; biological neural networks; networks in ecology and epidemiology
(2) Complex spatio-temporal dynamics in biology (oscilations, excitability, bistability; sinchronization in biological systems: neural networks; spatio-temporal chaos: cardiac fibrillation
(3) Analysis of complex biosignals (deterministic and stochastic signals; statistical properties; non-lineal time-series analysis of series temporalis)
(4) Self-organization in biological systems (morphogenesis; self-assembly: protein folding, membrane formation); growth processes: chemotaxis, tumour growth)
(5) Collective motion and active matter (flocking, swarming and herd; cell migration)