Seminars
Wednesday 20th February 2008
(Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Whitechapel)
Programme:
- 5-5.20pm "Identification and Modelling of Neural Dynamics" By Dr Ivan Tyukin
- 5.20-5.30pm Discussion
- 5.30-5.50pm "Oxidative stress and cell senescence in 'androgenetic alopecia". By Professor Mike Philpott
- 5.50-6pm Discussion
- 6-7pm Refreshments in the Nucleus Café
Speakers:
Dr Ivan Tyukin
Academic Fellow
Department of Mathematics
University of Leicester
The area of my research interests contains the problems of analysis, modelling and synthesis of fragile, nonlinear, chaotic, meta-stable dynamics; control theory; adaptation in presence of unstable target dynamics, nonlinear parametrization; synchronization (stable and critical), biologically-inspired systems for processing of the visual information; specific networks with spiking neurons; analysis of dynamics of the spiking neuron models, their properties and possible functions. They can be characterized by four major topics which are connected to each other by general idea of complex systems approach to understanding, analysis and synthesis of natural and artificial, intelligent systems.
Emai: i.tyukin@le.ac.uk
Professor Mike Philpott. Professor of Hair Biology. Institute of Cell and Molecular Science
I obtained my BSc in Marine Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Wales , Bangor in 1986 and my DPhil in Molecular Medicine from the University of Oxford in 1989. The title of my thesis was ‘Studies on isolated hair follicles' from which I published on the in vitro culture and growth of human hair follicles now referred to as the ‘Philpott model'. I continued my research into hair follicle biology at the University of Cambridge from 1989 until 1996. I was appointed to a lectureship at Barts and The London in 1996. Promoted to senior lecturer in 1999, Reader in 2003 and Professor of Cutaneous Biology in 2005. I am currently Centre lead for the Centre for Cutaneous Research within the Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences. My research interests include hair biology, steroidogenesis and sebocyte differentiation and the role of hedgehog signalling and Gli transcription factors in the development of basal cell carcinoma.
Email: m.p.philpott@qmul.ac.uk
