Economic Principles in Cell Biology          

The summer school is centered around the topics of our free and open textbook “Economic principles in cell biology” about cellular physiology and resource allocation, and will feature a number of (existing or planned) chapters as lectures. The course addresses students and young researchers with a natural science, engineering, or mathematics background. The first lectures give an introduction to basic metabolic and cell modeling, followed by lectures about more specific topics such as scaling relations and biological behaviour in the presence of randomness. In-person participants will also be involved in discussions around our book project.

Planned lectures (teachers to be confirmed):

1. The economy of the cell (Meike Wortel / Wolfram Liebermeister)
2. An inventory of cell components (Diana Széliová / Pranas Grigaitis)
3. Cell metabolism (Elad Noor)
4. Optimization of metabolic fluxes (Steffen Waldherr / Felipe Scott)
5. The enzyme cost of metabolic fluxes (Elad Noor / Wolfram Liebermeister)
6. Optimization of metabolic states (Meike Wortel)
7. Principle of cell growth (Hollie Hindley / Ohad Golan)
8. Resource allocation in complex cell models (Pranas Grigaitis / Wolfram Liebermeister)
9. Optimal cell behavior in time (Hidde de Jong)
10. Diversity of metabolic flux distributions (Roberto Mulet / Marcelo Rivas-Astroza)
11. Economy of organ form and function (Frédérique Noël)

Other activities

1. Hands-on computer exercises/tutorials with jupyter notebooks
2. Pen-and-paper exercises
3. Poster session
4. Discussions about our book project

For more information, see the program of our previous summer school.

On Thursday we will host a Night Science session, a course on the creative scientific process, developed by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher.

Website: night-science.org
Editorials: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/night-science
Podcast: nightscience.buzzsprout.com (with links to spotify etc.)