Models of biological pattern formation

Abstract

The development of higher organisms is controlled by a complex network of biochemical reactions that are under genetic control. The aim of the seminar is to demonstrate that it is possible to formulate models in a mathematical precise way that describe essential steps in spite of the appearing complexity of this process. Many of these models have found meanwhile direct support by molecular-genetic experiments. By computer simulations it will be shown that the models describe precisely the regulatory phenomena as they have been experimentally observed.