Talk
Temporal and spatial complex calcium dynamics
- Ursula Kummer (Klaus Tschira Foundation, Heidelberg, European Media Laboratory (EML))
Abstract
The experimental observation of calcium oscillations in living cells led to the development of several mathematical models which describe such oscillations. Besides simple rather periodic oscillations, complex nonperiodic oscillations have also been observed experimentally. These complex oscillations have not been explained by the existing models so far. We therefore developed a new model which is able to display simple and complex calcium oscillations in time and space. We describe the dynamics of this system in detail.
