The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science
announces the fifteenth
Chaim Leib Pekeris Memorial Lecture
to be delivered by
Professor Evelyn Fox Keller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Arthur and Rochelle
Belfer Institute of Mathematics and Computer
Science
at The Weizmann Institute of Science
The title:
Bringing Systems Biology to Life
on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at 16:00
in the Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium, on campus
A reception in honor of Prof. Fox Keller will be held after the lecture
Abstract
A couple years ago, a Nature editorial defined 'systems
biology' as the scientific response to the question, What is the difference
between a live cat and a dead one? 'A dead cat,' the author reasoned, 'is
a collection of its component parts.' What then is a live cat? This, we
cannot say. Indeed, the gap between the living and the non-living remains one
of the great unsolved problems of biology, and my talk will be
a meditation on what
filling that gap might involve.
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