IIT Seminar | Dr Andreas Mayer

Dr Andreas Mayer (Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University) will be speaking at the UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation Seminar Series on Thursday 21 October.

All are welcome to attend. Please contact Fran Collins (f.collins@ucl.ac.uk) if you would like to join the seminar, or meet the speaker.

About the speaker

Dr Mayer is broadly interested in the statistical physics of biological function. To combat infection by diverse and ever-evolving pathogens vertebrates use a dynamic defense machinery consisting of a large population of highly specialized cells - the adaptive immune system. Their population dynamics can now be measured at unprecedented depth, opening up an exciting new era for quantitative theory in immunology.

Dr Mayer's talk will focus on two questions, on which we have recently made progress using a combination of biophysics theory and statistical methods development: How do regulated responses to infection arise from the proliferation decisions of individual cells? And how does a lifetime of exposures collectively shape immune memory? The Mayer Lab's work demonstrates the power of simple physical models for unraveling the regulatory mechanisms of immune dynamics and the computational principles they implement.

Further information

• Academic profile: Dr Andreas Mayer
• Lewis-Sigler Institute
• Princeton University