Difference between revisions of "Control of mitosis in fission yeast"

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'''Mathematical tools''': Ordinary differential equations, Mathematica, Matlab
 
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'''Biological or Medical aspects''': Pom1 is a protein witch one form a cortical intracellular gradient who permit to control the entry of mitosis of the fission yeast, S.Pombe. The fact is, interaction of pom1 and cdr2 induces a cell cycle delay following to a gene activation cascade.
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'''Biological or Medical aspects''': Pom1 is a protein which forms a cortical intracellular gradient that permits to control the entry of mitosis of the fission yeast, S. Pombe. The fact is, interaction of pom1 and cdr2 induces a cell cycle delay following to a gene activation cascade.
 
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Revision as of 10:08, 11 May 2012

Background: Fission yeast cells growth up to a given size and then enters mitosis. The question this project addresses is how does the cell knows it has reached to right size for division. This is achieved by a gradient of the pom1 protein along the cortex.

Goal: The goal is to mathematically describe the mechanism by which such a gradient is achieved using differential equation and analyze such gradients from fluorescence microscopy images.

Mathematical tools: Ordinary differential equations, Mathematica, Matlab

Biological or Medical aspects: Pom1 is a protein which forms a cortical intracellular gradient that permits to control the entry of mitosis of the fission yeast, S. Pombe. The fact is, interaction of pom1 and cdr2 induces a cell cycle delay following to a gene activation cascade. Microtubuls performs

Supervisor: Sascha Dalessi

Students: Degrugillier Lucas, Delapierre Fabien, Merçay Johan.

Presentation:

Final Report:


References: <biblio>

  1. hachet10 pmid=21703453
  2. Tatata pmid=21703453
  3. CSHperspectives pmid=2773637

</biblio>



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