Graduiertenkolleg: Methods for Discrete Structures

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Monday Lecture and Colloquium


Monday, June 22, 2015

Freie Universität Berlin
Takustr. 9
14195 Berlin
room 005



Lecture - 14:15

Bernd Sturmfels - UC Berkeley

Rational Design of Antibiotic Treatment Plans

Abstract:
We present work with Portia Mira, Kristina Crona, Devin Greene, Juan Meza and Miriam Barlow, aimed at developing antibiotic treatment plans that can reverse the evolution of antibiotic resistance. The Barlow lab at UC Merced generated adaptive landscapes for 16 genotypes of the TEM beta-lactamase that vary from the wild type genotype TEM-1 through all combinations of four amino acid substitutions, and determined the growth rate of each genotype when treated with each of 15 beta-lactam antibiotics. Using growth rates for fitness in two models from population genetics, we computed the probability of each amino acid substitution in each beta-lactam treatment, and we searched through the 15 treatments for substitution paths leading from each of the 16 genotypes back to TEM-1. We identified treatment paths with the highest probabilities of returning TEM to the wild type state, thus offering promise for reversing the evolution of resistance to antibiotics. This lecture highlights the mathematics in this project.




Colloquium - 16:00

Jan Hofmann - FU Berlin

Convex-normal (pairs of) polytopes

Abstract:
A polytope P is k-convex-normal, if every rational multiple rP for r ∈ [2, k] can be covered by certain copies of P. This notion was introduced by Gubeladze, who used it to prove that polytopes with long edges have the integer decomposition property. In this talk we introduce the notion, show how to improve the aforementioned result and how convex-normality and the integer decomposition property can be extended to pairs of polytopes.
This is joint work with Christian Haase.



Letzte Aktualisierung: 19.06.2015