ELL 707, II semester 2019-20

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Systems Biology

Instructor
Shaunak Sen
E-mail: shaunak.sen@ee.iitd.ac.in
Lectures: MW 11:00-11:50am, Th 12:00-12:50pm
Room: LH 613

Announcements

Lectures

S. No. Date Topic Advised Reading Lectures
1 Week 1
(Dec 30, Jan 1, 2)
Introduction
Oscillations
Examples in Polar Co-ordinates, Limit Cycle, Stability
DM 1, A 1.1, 1.2
S 1, 2, 3, 4
DM 3.3
Dec 30
Jan 1
Jan 2
2 Week 2
(Jan 6, 8, 9)
Bifurcations
Examples in Cartesian Co-ordinates, Simulations (pplane)
Examples of Biomolecular Oscillators (Videos), Quiz 1
S 5, 6, 7, 8.0-8.3
DM 3.4
Jan 6
Jan 8
Jan 9
3 Week 3
(Jan 13, 16)
Repressilator, Repression, Activation
Law of Mass Action
DM 5.4, A 6.3
DM 2, A 1.3, 1.4, Appendix A
Jan 13
Jan 16
4 Week 4
(Jan 20, 22, 23)
Mathematical Models, ?, Quiz 2
Feedback, Negative, Delay
Negative Feedback, Faster Response Time
DM 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, A Appendix A & B
B. Novak & J. J. Tyson, 'Design Principles of Biochemical Oscillators’, Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell. Biol., 9(12), 2008., A 6.1
DM 5.2, A 2.4, 2.5
Jan 20
Jan 22
Jan 23
5 Week 5
(Jan 27, 29, 30)
Delay-induced Instability
code, Quiz 3
Solved Problem
Jan 27
Jan 29
Jan 30
6 Week 6
(Feb 4 - MINOR TEST 1)
7 Week 7
(Feb 10, 12, 13)
Minor Test Solutions
Delay-induced Oscillations
Bendixson Criterion, Poincare-Bendixson Theorem, Mallet-Paret & Smith Generalization for Class of Cyclic Oscillators
DM 5.3, A 5.1.1, A 5.1.2, A 6.5

DM 3.3
Feb 10
Feb 12
Feb 13
8 Week 8
(Feb 19, 20, 22)
Quiz 4, Boundedness of Solutions
Equilibrium Points, Stability Analysis by Linearization
Quiz 5

DM 5.4, A 6.1, 6.2
Feb 19
Feb 22
9 Week 9
(Feb 24, 26, 27)
Root Locus
Homeostasis Robustness Adaptation
Example: a Feedforward Loop
DM 5.5, A 6.4
DM 3.1, 3.2 A 7.1
DM 5.6, A 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7
Feb 24
Feb 26
Feb 27
10 Week 10
(Mar 2, 4, 5)
Transient Response
Fold-Change Detection Quiz 6
a Condition

A 10.1, 10.4
A 10.5, 10.7
Mar 2
Mar 4
Mar 5


References

  • (DM) D. del Vecchio & R. M. Murray, Biomolecular Feedback Systems, Princeton University Press, 2014 (available online).

  • (A) U. Alon, An Introduction to Systems Biology, Chapman & Hall/ CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology, 2006.

  • (S) S. Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Westview Press, 2001.