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Department of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Math 296: Graduate Student Colloquium
Prof. Natalia Komarova
UC San Diego
Mathematical modeling of spatial evolution
Abstract:
Evolutionary dynamics permeates life and life-like systems. Mathematical methods can be used to study evolutionary processes, such as selection, mutation, and drift, and to make sense of many phenomena in life sciences. In this talk I will discuss how spatial interactions may change the laws of evolution, giving rise to a system of scaling laws that describe the growth of disadvantageous, neutral, and advantageous mutants in growing populations. Applications of these laws to bacterial growth and carcinogenesis will be discussed.
May 13, 2025
3:00 PM
APM 6402
Research Areas
Mathematical Biology****************************
