Subsections
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- Introduction: What is Theoretical Biology? Role of other disciplines
in the study of biological systems.
- Theoretical Ecology and Epidemiology: Short survey of discrete
equations and differential equations. Models of population growth for
single and interacting species. Modelling the spread of infection in a
population.
- Theories of Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology: Diffusion and
cell-cell communication. Models of spatial pattern formation.
- Theoretical analysis of biochemical pathways and gene regulation Short
introduction to control theory. Types of feedback regulation in
biochemical pathways. Gene circuits. Network representation of
biochemical pathways.
- L. Edelstein-Keshet, Mathemtical Models in Biology, SIAM
Classics in Applied Mathematics 46 (2005).
- J. D. Murray, Mathematical Biology I and II, Springer (2007).
- L. Segel, Mathematical Models in Molecular and Cellular
Biology, Cambridge University Press (1984).
- U. Alon, An Introduction to Systems Biology, Chapman and
Hall/CRC (2006).
