A bifurcation integrates information from many noisy ion channels and allows for millikelvin thermal sensitivity in the snake pit organ

IR Graf, BB Machta - Biophysical Journal, 2024 - cell.com
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 325a can have an extremely sharp dependence on
temperature, naturally accounting for the thousand-fold amplification. Furthermore, close to …

A perfect probe: Resonance of underdamped scaled Brownian motion

Y Luo, C Zeng, B Li - Europhysics Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We numerically investigate the resonance of the underdamped scaled Brownian motion in a
bistable system for both cases of a single particle and interacting particles. Through the …

Diversity loss in microbial ecosystems undergoing gradual environmental changes

A Berger, MG Harari, A Gross, A Erez - Cell Reports Sustainability, 2024 - cell.com
Microbial ecosystems in soils, oceans, and other environments are essential for global
ecological stability. Environmental shifts are anticipated to trigger destabilizing events …

Flexibility in noisy cell-to-cell information dynamics

I Qunbar, M Vennettilli, A Erez - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The exchange of molecules allows cells to exchange information. How robust is the
information to changes in cell parameters? We use a mapping between the stochastic …

Theory for Optimal Estimation and Control under Resource Limitations and Its Applications to Biological Information Processing and Decision-Making

T Tottori, TJ Kobayashi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.14003, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite being optimized, the information processing of biological organisms exhibits
significant variability in its complexity and capability. One potential source of this diversity is …

A bifurcation integrates information from many noisy ion channels

IR Graf, BB Machta - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.05647, 2023 - arxiv.org
In various biological systems information from many noisy molecular receptors must be
integrated into a collective response. A striking example is the thermal imaging organ of pit …

[图书][B] Physical Limits to Cellular Sensing of the Environment

M Vennettilli - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Cells must accurately sense various aspects of their environment for survival. In 1977, Berg
and Purcell initiated a line of work placing physical limits on cells. The work herein is a …

Stochastic and Agent-based Modeling of Gene Expression and Cell Fate Decisions

RC Mines - 2021 - search.proquest.com
As new experimental techniques expand our capacity to understand the internal states of
single cells and to track the behavior of individual enzymes, classical modeling techniques …