Principles of Systems Biology

Ashok Prasad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Prior to joining CSU in 2009, he was a postdoc at Arup Chakraborty’s computational immunology lab at MIT. He did my Ph.D. in soft matter physics, applied to biologically inspired problems, with Jane’ Kondev at Brandeis University. Prior to coming to Brandeis, he taught economics in an undergraduate college in the University of Delhi for about 12 years. He has extensive experience teaching students at very different levels, and his rather diverse academic training has given him an appreciation for interdisciplinarity.

Dramatis Personae. The Amazing Worlds of Biological Macromolecules. The World of the Cell. Random Walks, Protein Diffusion, Transport. Putting Things Together. Chemical Kinetics. Biochemical Systems. Stochastic Chemical Kinetics. Model Estimation. Structure and Topology of Networks. Applications to Cellular Systems. Gene Transcription. Signal Transduction. Metabolism. Tissues, Organs and Populations. Pattern Formation in Organisms. Networks of Organisms: Ecological Models. Tissues and Organs. The Systems Biology of Cancer. Networks of Cells: The Brain