Immune System (IS) Research

Teaching | Natural IS Research | Artificial IS Research | Student Projects


Teaching

Lecture: Modeling the Immune System (with JP Kraehenbuhl, N. Debard and A. Martinoli)

Medical Doctor and Mathematician hand in hand

The lecture is available on the site epfl.bio-med.ch. You will need a user name to access this site, which you obtain at your first visit by logging in as new user.

Lecture Notes

They are available on epfl.bio-med.ch. The chapter on stochastic reaction models is also available here.



Natural Immune System Research

We are building mathematical models that are able to describe the population dynamics of cells involved in the immune system. These models allow us to test biological hypotheses about yet unknown phenomena, to suggest further experiments and eventually, to make predictions about the system. We also develop statistical methods to efficiently analyse biological data.

To find more: Mathematical models of the human immune system



Artificial Immune System Research

We are applying algorithmic ideas borrowed from the immune system of vertebrates to detect misbehavior in communication and information systems (detection of routing misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks and email spam filtering).

To find more: Immune networking using Artificial Immune Systems approach



Student Projects

Student projects on modeling the human immune system

TSED has been developed in the framework of semester and master projects (Michel Sede, Laurent Francioli and Julien Eperon). It is a very simple language and a set of tools for describing the kinetics of a biological system. The tools allow translation into Matlab or Scilab code for simulation, translation into SBML for storing in databases, and visualization. It is public domain.

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