8.592 - HST.452J (Spring 2009)

Statistical Physics in Biology

2009 student projects

Web-site

The world of population genetics (Lauren Nicolaisen)
Papers
A Statistical Model of Genetic Imprinting (Alice Ohlson)
Model of Protein Translation with Codon Bias and Nonsense Errors (Apratim Sahay)
A noise-based method for finding bistabilities in biological reaction networks (Arvind Shankar Prabhakar)
Hysteresis on Concurrent Synchronization of Neural Oscillators and Multiple Local Minima in Eective Free Energy (Beni Yoshida)
Simple DNA-Chromatin Interaction Model and its biological Implications (Dong hyun Kim)
Assessment of the feasibility of a k-mer based model for binding of the transcription factor E2-2 in humans (Maitagorri Schade)
Nucleosome positioning by a periodic potential (Maxim V Imakaev)
The Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process: Applications to Molecular Motor Modeling (Maxim Lavrentovich)
Effects of node failures on network efficiency (Michael Kiermaier)
A Description of Mitotic Spindle Assembly through a Modified XY Model (Michael D. Vahey)
Disease Propagation on a Network: Pandemics in the Era of Air Travel (Nabil Iqbal)
Computational and Theoretical Analysis of Actin Polymerization (Tae Yoon Kim)
Optimal peptide length in T- cell Receptors (Vivek Thacker)
Numerical Study of Polymer Force-Extension Relationship in a High-Frequency Electric Field (William E. Uspal)
Network Motifs in the C.elegans Neural Network and Their Dynamic Analysis (Yannan Zheng)

8.592 Projects(2009)- 2009- last update 6/4/09 by M. Kardar