Professor Grant Lythe (University of Leeds) presents “Computational Models in Immunology”.

Brief synopsis of the lecture content: We will consider modellling the cells and molecules of the immune system and its bacterial and viral foes. Models are built by defining simple rules at the level of individual cells. Stochastic models are, in principle, better than ODEs because they respect the facts that different outcomes are possible with a single initial condition, and that the number of cells is an integer. ODEs may describe the mean behaviour, but do not yield the probability of, or time to, extinction. Implementation of models, simple and more elaborate, in python will be an important part of the sessions.Participants should have a laptop with python installed for this session.

Time: 9.30-5pm

Speaker biography: Grant Lythe is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds and coordinatorof the European Training Network “Quantitative T cell Immunology and Immunotherapy”.

A Zoom invitation will circulate to all registered attendees on the 16th of March. If you wish to attend in person (venue Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick), please email Janet.Clifford@ul.ie before 15th March 5pm.