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Memory Hound

Tales of an Immunologist

By: Franco Celada

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Memory Hound

Tales of an Immunologist

By: Franco Celada

Memory Hound captures the life of a globetrotting scientist as he travels around the world. It is a life journey that crisscrosses the continents and the Twentieth Century, as historical events intertwine with scientific discoveries. The resulting chronicle is not just about Science, but about Life in and with Science.Written for people who love science and the humanities alike, Memory Hound offers insight into the mysterious universe of cells as well as concepts of scientific reasoning. In this world successes and failures can often lead to epiphanies and radical shifts in the direction of scientific inquiry and newfound priorities and applications in the field. The large section devoted to the author's formative years, on the backdrop of the Second World War, lends Memory Hound the emotional heft of a Bildungsroman, as the author witnesses the fall of a dictatorship and the surge toward social justice. What ultimately unites life and science is the centrality of memory as a cognitive survival tool, both in the Immune System and in the brain. A concept Celada investigated in a fruitful collaboration with Umberto Eco.

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376

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ISBN 10

1733869204

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9781733869201

Protein Conformation as an Immunological Signal

By: Franco Celada,Verne N. Schumaker,Eli E. Sercarz

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Protein Conformation as an Immunological Signal

By: Franco Celada,Verne N. Schumaker,Eli E. Sercarz

This volume is the collection of papers presented during a four day meeting, the EMBO workshop "Protein Conformation as an Immunological Signal" that took place at Portovenere (La Spezia), Italy, October 1-4, 1981. The motivation that drove us to organize this meeting was the feeling that distinct groups of researchers, active in key areas of modern immunology, sometimes fail to communicate with each other simply because of different traditional affiliations. Yet it is urgent that "molecular" and "cellular" people cooperate more if immunology is to continue the exportation of new concepts to other disciplines. In fact, the deep meaning of molecule-molecule and cell-cell interaction, the generation of signals and their effective transmission which results in elicitation, control or suppression of responses cannot be unraveled without the experts on antibody structure or complement activation sharing their views with the experts on T cell, B cell and macrophage membrane receptors as well as the experts on factors that carry the information released by these cells. Whether the meeting was scientifically fruitful, the reader can judge after having digested these pages. We, the organizers, are not sure whether the optimal amount·of interaction had taken place; especially considering how hard it is to overcome the scientist's catch 22: You have to know something quite well before you get really interested in it. In any event, we are convinced that Portovenere was one of the most successful attempts we have witnessed.

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500

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Springer Science & Business Media

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146133778X

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9781461337782

Immune System Modelling and Simulation

By: Filippo Castiglione,Franco Celada

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Immune System Modelling and Simulation

By: Filippo Castiglione,Franco Celada

The book describes a computational model of the immune system reaction, C-ImmSim, built along the lines of the computer model known as the Celada-Seiden model (CS-model). The computational counterpart of the CS-model is called IMMSIM which stands for IMMune system SIMulator. IMMSIM was written in 1992 by the physicist Phil E. Seiden and the immunol

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284

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CRC Press

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1466597496

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9781466597495

Lectures Presented at the EU Advanced Workshop on Dynamical Modeling in Biotechnology

DGXII European Commission BIOTECH (1994-1998) Programme : Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy, 27 May-9 June 1996

By: Franco Bagnoli,Stefano Ruffo

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Lectures Presented at the EU Advanced Workshop on Dynamical Modeling in Biotechnology

DGXII European Commission BIOTECH (1994-1998) Programme : Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy, 27 May-9 June 1996

By: Franco Bagnoli,Stefano Ruffo

The power of modelization in physics and in engineering is not in doubt, while in the biotechnological field many theoretical studies stop at the description level. It is time for theoretical modelization to enter the field of biotechnology, and that needs people with both physical and biological knowledge.This book introduces interested scientists with varied backgrounds to active research in different areas broadly related to what has come to be called ?dynamical modeling in biology?.

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