Charu Sharma, senior lecturer at MSF, carried out this analysis of genetic data from 78 individuals. Some simple applications of matrices and statistics show that the individuals belong to 3 distinct groups (in fact these individuals are grouped geographically - they are from the Middle East, China and Brazil). In IAYM we will explore whether such techniques can also distinguish the healthy from those in the early stages of a disease!
Charu has a masters in Applied Mathematics from the University of Houston, and is currently collaborating with faculty of the Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), a premier CSIR institute, towards developing mathematical tools and software for use in biology.
IAYM is a summer internship programme designed to stimulate creativity through ‘hands on’ applications of mathematics with the help of computing techniques. The programme is open to high school and college level students, and features a stipend as well as travel and stay support.
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Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Students at the audi..
Today, there was a small change in the schedule. Instead of the daily lecture at 9:30, students were shown an interesting movie, called 'Flatland'. The movie was an animated & fantastic story of figures of two dimensions. It showed the conflict between dimensions.
The motive behind the story was 'The thing you can't see, doesn't means that it does not exist'.
After that there was a tea break, then there was supposed to be a lecture
by Prof. Sanjay Jain on 'Origin of Life' at 10:30, but due to some reasons it was postponed to 11:30. Prof. Jain is a physicist working at the University of Delhi. Prof. Jain talked about the evolution of life on earth, that is the coming into being of the first single-celled organisms. He talked about the internal structure and the chemical composition of a cell or a bacterial cell specifically. The lecture was very informative and interesting though it stretched a little lot.
by Prof. Sanjay Jain on 'Origin of Life' at 10:30, but due to some reasons it was postponed to 11:30. Prof. Jain is a physicist working at the University of Delhi. Prof. Jain talked about the evolution of life on earth, that is the coming into being of the first single-celled organisms. He talked about the internal structure and the chemical composition of a cell or a bacterial cell specifically. The lecture was very informative and interesting though it stretched a little lot.
After his lecture, there was the lunch break. From 1:30 students followed their daily routine...
As the day followed a changed routine, the enthusiasm increased a lot. Moreover, when the students left to their homes, they shall think, 'Is there a 4th dimension?'- Flatland
Thanks...
To be continued....
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