Case Studies

One major component of the CoMPLEX MRes year is a series of 12 sets of case presentations given by researchers working on problems at the interface between the life sciences and mathematical and computational methods. Students must choose three of these to investigate in more detail and write essays on some aspect of the research.

The 2006-2007 presentations are listed below. During this part of the course I found it beneficial to write up some rough preliminary notes on each one, which you can get to by clicking the titles. Note that these were pretty informal and based mainly on first impressions, so they may include various factual innaccuracies or misrepresentations.

1. Perception of Aural Space David McAlpine et al
2. Computational Vision: Second-Order Motion Alan Johnston & Peter McOwan
3. Multi-particle tracking of fluorescent signals to image cellular compartments and receptor transport mechanisms Joseph Kittler & Lewis Griffin
4. Life in the Material World Buzz Baum & Mark Miodownik
5. Metabolomics applied to Systems Biology F Baganz & A Batagov
6. Introduction to immunology, immunoinformatics and computational vaccinology Peter Coveney & Matthew Davies
7. Vertical integration of biological scales: towards in silico organs for computational physiology S Yamaji & James Hetherington
8. On brain haemodynamics and stroke Neil Kitchen & Frank Smith
9. Bayesian analysis in population genetics Jim Mallet & Ziheng Yang
10. Dynamics of interactions between inherited bacteria and their hosts Greg Hurst & Max Reuter
11. Placental Embryology, Cell Migration and Morphological Change David Bogle et al
12. Modelling visual completion and visual hallucinations Richard Abadi & Richard Clement

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I chose to write essays on cases 4, 6 and 12. The results can be downloaded below in PDF format:

1. Life in the Immaterial World
2. Prospects for Clinical Application of Molecular Dynamics in HIV Treatment
3. Relating Simple and Complex Visual Hallucinations in Charles Bonnet Syndrome