MaPSS: Maths Postgraduate Seminar Series: Adarsh Kumbhari -- Using circuits to understand immune self-regulation

Hello all,

The next MaPSS talk of this semester will be at 17:00 on Monday 9th in Carslaw
535. It’s a great opportunity to meet fellow postgrads, listen to an interesting talk,
and of course get some free pizza!

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Speaker: Adarsh Kumbhari

Title: Using circuits to understand immune self-regulation

Abstract: T cells are specialised immune cells responsible for killing pathogens. 
How these cells are able to self-regulate, however, is unknown. Inspired by analogies 
with electrical circuts, we develop a mathematical model to infer how immune 
dynamics are driven by "input signals". We find that T cell expansion may be a 
change-detection system, both in response to checkpoint and antigen expression, 
which has implications for immune therapies against cancer.

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See you there!

Details can also be found on the school’s Postgraduate Society website: 
http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/MaPS/mapss.2020.html 

Cheers,
Eric