Summary
This research will use mathematics to understand how living cells make decisions, such as when to divide or when to die. In living cells, many chemical reactions take place all the time. Scientists think of these reactions as forming a network, like a wiring diagram, with connecting wires describing the movement of nutrients and metabolites through a cell's chemical reactions. Knowing the entire wiring diagram is not necessary for understanding the fate of individual nutrients, but the many interconnected circuits make it difficult to isolate the part of the diagram important for certain ac
