Artificial Life and Systems Biology

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Jens Christian Claussen

WS 2009/2010 (will be held every 3-4 semesters)

• 21.10. Overview: Artificial Life and Systems Biology. Cellular Automata
• 28.10. Cellular Automata (cont). Artificial Chemistry and Self-Replicating Code
•   4.11. Information Theory
•  9.11. exercise
• 11.11. Statistical Physics
• 17.11. (Tuesday) lecture instead of exercise:
• 18.11.
• 23.11. exercise
• 24.11. exercise (instead of lecture)
•  1.12. (Tuesday) lecture instead of exercise:
•  2.12. lecture
•  8.12. exercise
•  9.12.
• 15.12. exercise
• 16.12.
• Official Lecture Break 21.12.2009 - 06.01.2010
• 12.1. exercise
• 13.1.
• 19.1. exercise
• 20.1.
• 26.1. exercise
• 27.1.
•  2.2. exercise (?)
•  3.2. lecture (?)
•  9.2.
• 10.2.
• Official end of lectures 17.2.2010
• Written exam (Klausur): February or March 2010 (t.b.a.)

Lecture: Wednesday 13:00-14:30 in Audimax Seminar room 1 (AM S 1), starting 21.October 2009

Exercises: Tuesday 17:00-17:45  in Audimax Seminar room 1 (AM S 1)

Lecture + exercises (V+Ue 2+1SWS) in winter semester 2009 (and winter semester 2011?)

for CLS (Computational Life Sciences) (Master)

for Informatics (Master)

for Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Science

... and for everyone who is interested!

Preliminary outline

• Biologial evolution
• Artificial Life: Cellular automata, ... Tierra, ... Artificial Cells, ...
• Complex systems models
• Methods: Information theory, statistical physics
• Complex Networks
• Genes, switches, modules, robustness
• Methods: Differential equations, bifurcations
• Research Focus Lecture(s) of current interest in Lübeck
• ...

Topics that belong to Systems Biology (somehow) but will be excluded in my lecture (as they will be covered elsewhere) are: