Stochastic gene expression
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Stochastic gene expression
- Event time: 11:30am until 12:30pm
- Event date: 1st November 2017
- Speaker: Juraj Szavits Nossan (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Gene expression is a fundamentally stochastic process, leading to significant cell-to-cell variations in mRNA and protein levels. When the number of mRNAs and proteins is low, this process cannot be captured by deterministic kinetic models. In this talk I will present a simple stochastic model for gene expression that accounts for experimentally observed temporal bursts in protein numbers, rendering protein number distribution non-Poissonian.
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