A Tale
of three Tales
Eytan Ruppin, Schools of Computer
Science and Medicine, TAU
Abstract
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In this talk I shall survey three recent ongoing studies,
addressing the following questions:
1. Genetic robustness in metabolic networks:
what is its architecture?
how many genes contribute to it? What
mechanisms underlie metabolic
robustness and what are its evolutionary
origins?
[ with Dudi Deutscher and Isaco Meilijson ]
2. Network motifs in regulatory networks: Are
they evolutionary conserved?
Are over-expressed motifs over-selected? Are
they more lethal?
[ with Ofer Meshi and Tomer Shlomi ]
3. From gene expression to behavior (via C
elegans neurons): Is there a
correlation/mapping between these two
disparate levels? Are there subsets
of genes that may yield a significant
correlation? If so, who are they?
[ work in progress, with Alon Kaufman ]
Hopefully, some tentative answers will be
given..