Economic Principles in Cell Biology          

Lecture slides (pre-final versions - please check for final versions after the course)

1. The economy of the cell (Meike Wortel)
2. An inventory of cell components (Diana Széliová / Pranas Grigaitis)
3. Cell metabolism (Pranas Grigaitis / Steffen Waldherr)
4. Optimization of metabolic fluxes (Felipe Scott Contador / Steffen Waldherr)
5. The enzyme cost of metabolic fluxes (Elad Noor)
6. Optimization of metabolic states (Meike Wortel)
7. Principles of cell growth (Hollie Hindley)
8. Growth balance analysis (Hugo Dourado)
9. Optimal cell behavior in time (Hidde de Jong)
10. Diversity of metabolic flux distributions (Roberto Mulet)
11. Economy of organ form and function (Frédérique Noël)

More information

1. Summer school - Practical announcements (Diana Széliová)
2. Economy of the cell - Community activities (Wolfram Liebermeister)

Video recordings will be available here a few weeks after the course.

The computer exercises ("Practical work") were based on Jupyter notebooks in this git repository.

1. Introduction to Python & Jupyter (1) (Elad Noor / Michela Pauletti)
2. Flux Balance Analysis (2) (Felipe Scott Contador)
3. Elementary Flux Modes (3) (Diana Széliová)
4. Optimal enzyme profiles (4) (Elad Noor)
5. Optimal metabolic states (5) (Meike Wortel)
6. Self-replicating cells (6) (Hollie Hindley)
7. Flux variability and entropy (7) (Marcelo Rivas-Astroza)
8. Dynamic Flux Balance Analysis (8) (Steffen Waldherr)

We hosted 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.)