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12.07.2024  Rhein-Main-Kolloquium

Nicolas Champagnat (Nancy)
Anita Winter (Duisburg-Essen)

RMK Frankfurt

The grapheme-valued Wright-Fisher Diffusion with mutation --- In Athreya, den Hollander and Röllin (2021) models from population genetics were used to de fine stochastic dynamics in the space of graphons that arise as continuum limits of dense graph sequencess. In this talk we extend this framework to a model with mutation. In particular, we define a finite graph valued Markov chain that can be associated with the infinite many alleles model, and establish a diffusion limit as the number of vertices goes to infinity. For that we encode finite graphs as graphemes. Graphems are those graphons that can be represented as a triple consisting of a topological vertex space, an adjacency matrix and a sampling measure. The space of graphons is equipped with convergence of sample subgraph densities. (joint work with Andreas Greven, Frank den Hollander and Anton Klimovsky) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Scaling limits of individual-based models in adaptive dynamics and local extinction of populations (N. Champagnat) --- Starting from an individual-based birth-death-mutation-selection model of adaptive dynamics with three scaling parameters (population size, mutation rate, mutation steps size), we will describe several scaling limits that can be applied to this model to obtain macroscopic models of different natures (PDE, Hamilton-Jacobi equation, stochastic adaptive walks, canonical equation of adaptive dynamics), which allow to characterize the long-term evolution of the population. Motivated by biological criticisms on the time-scale of evolution and the absence of local extinctions in the obtained macroscopic models, we propose new parameter scalings under which we can characterize the evolution of population sizes of the order of $K^\beta$, where $K$ is the order of magnitude of the total population size, and which allows for local extinction of subpopulations. This presentation will gather results obtained with several collaborators: Régis Ferrière, Sylvie Méléard, Amaury Lambert, Viet Chi Tran, Sepideh Mirrahimi, Vincent Hass. weiterlesen

06.06.2024  Stochastik-Kolloquium Frankfurt

B cell phylodynamics and mean-field multi-type birth and death processes

No knowledge of biology will be necessary to understand this talk. Germinal centers (GC) are micro-anatomical structures that transiently form in lymph nodes during an adaptive immune response. In a GC, B cells—the cells that make antibodies—diversify and compete based on the ability of the antibodies they express to recognize a foreign antigen molecule. As GC B cells proliferate, they undergo targeted mutations in the genomic locus encoding the antibody protein that can modify its antigen binding affinity. Via signaling from other GC cell types, the GC can monitor the binding phenotype of the B cell population it contains and provide survival signals to B cells with the highest-affinity antibodies (i.e., birth and death rates depend on type). Motivated by this mechanism, we develop a mean-field model that couples the birth and death rates in a focal multi-type birth and death process (MTBDP) with D types to the empirical distribution of states—i.e., the mean-field over an exchangeable system of N replica MTBDPs. The empirical distribution process of the N replicas converges to a deterministic probability measure-valued flow as N goes to infinity. In the limit, the focal process evolves as a multi-type birth and death process with rates governed by the probability measure-valued flow which is in turn the flow of one-dimensional marginal distributions of the focal process. Individual focal processes become independent in the limit and this holds out the hope of inference being feasible for this model. This is joint work with William S. DeWitt, Ella Hiesmayr, and Sebastian Hummel. weiterlesen

19.–23.02.2024  Sommer-/Winterschule

Eero Saksmann (University of Helsinki)
Julien Barral (Université Paris 13)

Spring School 2024

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02.02.2024  Rhein-Main-Kolloquium

Peter Mörters (Universität Köln)
Alessandra Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Padova)

RMKS Frankfurt/Main 02.02.2024

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