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Stochasticity and Control

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Michal Or-Guil

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Humboldt University
Michal Or-Guil is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Humboldt University.
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Ronald Gartenhaus

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University of Maryland
Ronald B. Gartenhaus is a Professor in School of Medicine at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on Hematologic malignancies, with a special interest in abnormal post-transcriptional/translational gene regulation and oncogenic signaling cascades.
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Nir Friedman

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Weizmann Institute
Nir Friedman is a Professor in Department of Immunology at Weizmann Institute of Science. His research focuses on systems immunology of T cells. Intercellular communication, differentiation and antigen specificity.
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Gur Yaari

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Bar-Ilan University
Gur Yaari is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University. His research interest is developing computational and statistical tools to analyze high-throughput biological data. The main focus of Gur's research is in studying the adaptive immune system from a system perspective.
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Uri Hershberg

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Drexel University
Uri Hershberg is an Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems and the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at the College of Medicine of Drexel University.
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Sol Efroni

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Bar-Ilan University
Sol Efroni is a Professor in Systems Biomedicine Lab at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on systems biology. Network analysis in the development of malignant diseases. Drug discovery, design and delivery research

Research Groups:Stochasticity and Control in the Dynamics and Diversity of Immune Repertoires: an Example of Multi-Cellular Co-Operation

[RG # 150]  Stochasticity and Control in the Dynamics and Diversity of Immune Repertoires: an Example of Multi-Cellular Co-Operation

March 26- June 30, 2017

Organizers: 
Uri Hershberg  (Drexel University)
Gur Yaari (Bar-Ilan University)

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We propose to study the general problems of functionality and robustness in complex biological systems, through a focus on the adaptive immune response as a model system. The adaptive immune response is a complex system, which comprises many interacting cells that are subject to various sources of stochasticity. We will address fundamental questions in the field such as how B and T cell repertoires collectively go through a process of stochastic diversity generation and clonal selection, and consistently yield functional controlled immune responses in a noisy environment. This understanding will be important in developing control strategies to modulate the immune response (e.g., with vaccinations or immune therapies) since, while predictable in the aggregate, human immune responses can display marked variability. For example, a small fraction of individuals do not raise antibodies following influenza vaccination, and efficacy rates for vaccination in older individuals are generally under 30%. Infections with West Nile virus are usually asymptomatic, but some patients experience severe neurological disease and even death. The potential role of stochasticity at different spatial and temporal scales in driving these diverse yet robus responses will be a main focus of our research group.

 

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