Session V7: Noise in Biological Systems

11:15 AM–2:15 PM, Thursday, March 16, 2006
Baltimore Convention Center - 307

Sponsoring Units: GSNP DBP
Chair: Alex van Oudenaarden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.MAR.V7.1

Abstract: V7.00001 : Fluctuation-adaptation relation in bacterial chemotaxis

11:15 AM–11:51 AM

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Author:

  Philippe Cluzel
    (University of Chicago)

I will present experiments and computer simulations demonstrating, at the single cell level, that the expression of key chemotaxis proteins is fine-tuned to values that maximize fluctuations and the chemotactic response.

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