1st Edition

Systems Immunology An Introduction to Modeling Methods for Scientists

Edited By Jayajit Das, Ciriyam Jayaprakash Copyright 2019
354 Pages
by CRC Press

354 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

354 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

"Taken together, the body of information contained in this book provides readers with a bird’s-eye view of different aspects of exciting work at the convergence of disciplines that will ultimately lead to a future where we understand how immunity is regulated, and how we can harness this knowledge toward practical ends that reduce human suffering. I commend the editors for putting this volume... Read more

1. Introduction to Basic Concepts in Immunology  2. Overview of Mechanistic Modeling: Techniques, Approximations, and Assumptions  3. The Fundamentals of Statistical Data Analysis  4. Using Data to Guide Model Construction: Application of Principal Component Analysis and Related Methods in Immunology Research  5. An Introduction to Rule-based Modeling of Immune Receptor Signaling  6. Boolean Models in Immunology  7. From evolutionary computation to phenotypic spandrels: inverse problem for immune ligand recognition  8. Zen and the Art of Parameter Estimation in Systems Biology  9. Spatial Kinetics in Immunological Modeling  10. Analysis and modeling of single cell data  11. Quantifying lymphocyte receptor diversity  12. Antigen receptor diversification during immune responses  13. Quantitative Modeling of Mast Cell Signaling  14. Physical models in immune signaling  15. Population Dynamics of Host and Pathogens  16. Viral fitness landscapes: A physical sciences perspective  17. A wish-list for modeling immunological synapses

Biography

Jayajit Das, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, and Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, both in Columbus, Ohio. He obtained his Ph.D. in statistical physics from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Raman Research Institute, India. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Virginia Tech, University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prior to joining OSU. He is a member of the American Physical Society, author of many published journal articles, and invited speaker at numerous international conferences.





Ciriyam Jayaprakash, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Physics at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He earned his doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University as well as a visiting scientist at the IBM Watson Research Center prior to joining the faculty of OSU. He is the recipient of a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. His current research interests include modeling of viral antagonists and immune system response, stochastic effects in subcellular processes, and applications of nonlinear dynamics.