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Possible topics Local exitation, global inhibition [1] Epigenetics (alternative feedback system) [2, 3] Stochastics [4] Monotone control systems [5, 6] Biological recognition [7] Papers Howard M, Rutenberg AD, and de Vet S. Dynamic compartmentalization of bacteria: accurate division in E. coli. Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Dec 31;87(27 Pt 1):278102. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.278102 | Lim HN and van Oudenaarden A. A multistep epigenetic switch enables the stable inheritance of DNA methylation states. Nat Genet. 2007 Feb;39(2):269-75. DOI:10.1038/ng1956 | Collier J, McAdams HH, and Shapiro L. A DNA methylation ratchet governs progression through a bacterial cell cycle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Oct 23;104(43):17111-6. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0708112104 | Mettetal JT, Muzzey D, Pedraza JM, Ozbudak EM, and van Oudenaarden A. Predicting stochastic gene expression dynamics in single cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 9;103(19):7304-9. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0509874103 | Angeli, D.; Sontag, E.D., "Monotone control systems," Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on , vol.48, no.10pp. 1684- 1698, Oct. 2003 Ieeexplore Angeli D, Ferrell JE Jr, and Sontag ED. Detection of multistability, bifurcations, and hysteresis in a large class of biological positive-feedback systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Feb 17;101(7):1822-7. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0308265100 | Reményi A, Good MC, and Lim WA. Docking interactions in protein kinase and phosphatase networks. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2006 Dec;16(6):676-85. DOI:10.1016/j.sbi.2006.10.008 | Katz L and Burge CB. Widespread selection for local RNA secondary structure in coding regions of bacterial genes. Genome Res. 2003 Sep;13(9):2042-51. DOI:10.1101/gr.1257503 | Beg QK, Vazquez A, Ernst J, de Menezes MA, Bar-Joseph Z, Barabási AL, and Oltvai ZN. Intracellular crowding defines the mode and sequence of substrate uptake by Escherichia coli and constrains its metabolic activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 31;104(31):12663-8. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0609845104 | Murphy KF, Balázsi G, and Collins JJ. Combinatorial promoter design for engineering noisy gene expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 31;104(31):12726-31. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0608451104 |