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SEMINAR: Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium

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Today's date is Friday, March 29, 2024
Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium : Mathematics and the Noise Immunity of the Genetic Code Other events...
Symmetry is one of the essential and most visible patterns that can be seen in nature. Starting from the left-right symmetry of the human body, all types of symmetry can be found in crystals, plants, animals and nature as a whole.

Similarly, principals of symmetry are also some of the fundamental and most useful tools in modern mathematical natural science that play a major role in theory and applications. As a consequence, it is not surprising that the desire to understand the origin of life, based on the genetic code, forces us to involve symmetry as a mathematical concept.

The genetic code can be seen as a key to biological self-organisation. All living organisms have the same molecular bases - an alphabet consisting of four letters (nitrogenous bases): adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. Linearly ordered sequences of these bases contain the genetic information for synthesis of proteins in all forms of life. Thus, one of the most fascinating riddles of nature is to explain why the genetic code is as it is.

Genetic coding possesses noise immunity which is the fundamental feature that allows to pass on the genetic information from parents to their descendants. Hence, since the time of the discovery of the genetic code, scientists have tried to explain the noise immunity of the genetic information. In this talk we will discuss recent results in mathematical modelling of the genetic code with respect to noise immunity, in particular error-detection and error-correction.

Cheese and wine to follow in the Maths common room (5pm-6pm)
Speaker(s) Prof. Lutz Str�ngmann
Location Robert Street Lecture Theatre
Contact Brendan Florio <[email protected]>
Start Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:00
End Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:00
Submitted by Brendan Florio <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:20
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