Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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494
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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IMS
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| Abstract - #310188 |
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Title:
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A Branching Process Model of Prion Dynamics
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Author(s):
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Peter Olofsson*+ and Suzanne Sindi
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Companies:
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Trinity University and University of California, Merced
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Abstract:
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Prions are infectious agents composed of misfolded proteins, responsible for illnesses such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt--Jakob disease in humans. We create a branching process model for yeast cells to describe how prions grow inside the cell and how they are transmitted from mother to daughter cell. We compare our model predictions to laboratory data and use it to estimate unknown parameters.
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