Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium
  US Mountain Time
Speaker: 
Aleksandra Walczak (Ecolé Normale Supérieure)

Our campus is closed to the public for this event.

Abstract: Living systems often attempt to calculate and predict the future state of the environment.  Given the stochastic nature of many biological systems, how is that possible? I will show that even a system as complicated as the immune system has reproducible observables. Yet predicting the future state of a complex environment requires weighing the trust in new observations against prior experiences. In this light, I will present a view of the adaptive immune system as a dynamic Bayesian machinery that updates its memory repertoire by balancing evidence from new pathogen encounters against past experience of infection to predict and prepare for future threats. 

Those unable to attend can stream the lecture from Twitter and our YouTube page.
 

Purpose: 
Research Collaboration
SFI Host: 
Andy Rominger and Jacopo Grilli

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