Speaker
Catherine Penington
(Macquarie University)
Description
Typically, discrete stochastic models of cell proliferation use a rate to determine whether or not a cell proliferates at a particular time, producing an exponential distribution for the time between proliferation events. Actual experiments, however, suggest that cells actually have a Gaussian distribution in their time to proliferate, with a relatively small standard deviation. This talk will discuss the similarities and differences in the group behaviour depending on the proliferation model: both the surprising match after a single time step, and the large differences as simulations progress.
Primary author
Catherine Penington
(Macquarie University)
Co-author
Prof.
Matthew Simpson
(School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology)