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Dr. Tarynn M. Witten,
PhD, FGSA, FCSBC: In this presentation, we will examine some problems arising in the study of the biology of aging, the evolutionary biology of aging, and the physiological dynamics of aging. We will examine how complexity constructs can be used to garner insight into the underlying processes in each of these examples. No mathematical background is required. Biography Tarynn M. Witten, PhD, FGSA, FCSBC, is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and holder of the Inaugural Nathan W. and Margaret Shock New Investigator Award from the Gerontological Society of America. She is currently a Professor of Bio statistics at Virginia Commonwealth University-Medical College of Virginia Campus, Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University-Main Campus, and Director of Research and Development, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity. She has served as one of the consortium members of the Bio markers of Aging Project (NIH/NIA). In addition, Dr. Witten is a member of the consulting consortium of the Healthy People 2010 Project. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National AIDS and HIV Over Fifty Association (NAHOF). Dr. Witten has presented over 200 international scientific talks on aging-related issues, mathematical modeling and simulation, and the role of computation in medicine and has written over 100 papers on modeling aging. She is also the author of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science entry on Computational Biology and Medicine. Dr. Witten is listed in Who's Who In International
Science - 1989/90, Who's Who In Computing - 1989/90, Who's Who In Health
& Medicine-1990/91, Who's Who Worldwide - 1990/93/94, Who's Who In Science
And Engineering - 1992/93/94, Who's Who In The South And Southwest - 1992/94/97,
Who's Who In American Education - 1993/94, International Who's Who of
Information Technology 1996/1997, Who’s Who In the World 2000, International
Who’s Who of Professionals 2000, and as one of the Top 2000 Women Scientists
in the World 2001!
"Quantifying Biological Complexity" Dr. Danail Bonchev will visit the CSBC on Tuesday
and Wednesday, April Please join us to welcome Dr. Bonchev. If you would
like to speak with About the Talk "Quantifying Biological Complexity" is an introduction to the methods of assessing complexity in biology and ecology, based on topology, information theory and complexity theory. The concepts of structural and compositional complexity are presented by a series of global, relative, and local descriptors of biological (mainly protein-protein interaction) networks in cells, tissues and organs. The hierarchical functional organization of the proteome and its topological patterns of self-org anization are discussed on this basis. The importance of the new biologic al network paradigm is discussed and its areas of application are outlined. The critical path of maximum attainable complexity is proposed as a guiding principle of biological network evolution. Biosketch Born in Bulgaria, where he got his Ph. D. in quantum
chemistry in 1970. Doctor of Sciences degree from Moscow State University
in 1984 (a title equivalent to full professorship in the U.S.) Professor
of Physical Chemistry at the Assen Zlatarov University in Bulgaria till
1992 when he emigrated to the U.S. Work on research projects with MD Anderson
Cancer Center, Texas A&M University, Galveston, and Rice University,
Houston. Industry consultant since 1997. Over 200 publications, including
books and textbooks. Coeditor with Dennis Rouvray of the series of monographs,
"Mathematical Chemistry." Expert in the area of molecular topology,
complexity, and information theory.
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