Speaker: Luca Peliti
Title: Fluctuation Relations and Fitness in Population Dynamics
Abstract:
Recent advances in single-cell lapse microscopy allow to monitor the division 
dynamics and the phenotypic state in growing cell populations. The resulting data 
allow to infer the fitness of a phenotype in constant and varying environments, by 
exploiting fluctuation relations similar to those of stochastic thermodynamics. I 
shall summarize these techniques, highlighting their strong points and possible 
pitfalls.