Quantitative Biosciences

Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and Populations

Joshua S. Weitz

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English

Princeton University Press
12 June 2024

Data analysis: general; Biology, life sciences

Quantitative Biosciences establishes the quantitative principles of how living systems work across scales, drawing on classic and modern discoveries to present a case study approach that links mechanisms, models, and measurements. Each case study is organised around a central question in the life sciences: Are mutations dependent on selection? How do cells respond to fluctuating signals in the environment? How do organisms move in flocks given local sensing? How does the size of an epidemic depend on its initial speed of spread? Each question provides the basis for introducing landmark advances in the life sciences while teaching students - whether from the life sciences, physics, computational sciences, engineering, or mathematics - how to reason quantitatively about living systems given uncertainty.

By: Joshua S. Weitz
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm,
ISBN: 9780691181509
ISBN 10: 0691181500
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 12 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Joshua S. Weitz is professor and the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland. Previously, he held the Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he founded the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences. He is the author of Quantitative Viral Ecology: Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts (Princeton).