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Spatial stochastic models of intracellular dynamics in dilute and crowded conditions

Dates:13 May 2019
Times:14:00 - 15:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:Department of Mathematics
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students
Speaker:Ramon Grima
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Join us for this research seminar, part of the Mathematics in the life sciences seminar series.

Stochastic effects in biochemical reaction systems are commonly studied by means of the Reaction-Diffusion Master equation (RDME). The RDME is computationally efficient and has the advantage of being amenable to analysis. However the RDME assumes point particle interactions, i.e. dilute conditions. This presents a problem because the intracellular environment can be highly crowded with up to 40% of its volume being occupied by various macromolecules. In this talk I will discuss our recent work showing how the RDME can be modified to take into account volume-excluded interactions. This can be solved in certain conditions yielding explicit expressions for the dependence of reactant number fluctuations on the available volume fraction of space. I will also discuss how one can use the modified RDME to derive coupled nonlinear partial differential equations which describe molecular movement in highly heterogeneous crowded environments and which hence offer a realistic alternative to the classical diffusion equation. All results will be contrasted with those obtained from Brownian dynamics.

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Ramon Grima

Organisation: The University of Edinburgh

Biography: See Ramon Grima's profile:

  • http://grimagroup.bio.ed.ac.uk/ramongrima.html

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