Danny Forger from the University of Michigan will be speaking September 27 at 4PM at UMass in room 222 Morrill (South). His talk is entitled, “Predicting the Multi-Scale Nature of Circadian Timekeeping.”
Danny is a mathematician who models transcriptional regulation, particularly as it pertains to feedback loops in the context of rhythmicity. His most recent work includes findings that noise — variability in rate constants, for example, or perhaps even ion or temperature fluxes that occur during normal cell function — may be important in sustaining normal feedback relationships and oscillations.