Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and Populations

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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.

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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).