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This seminar will be presented by Prof. Aneta Stefanovka, Professor of Biomedical Physics at Lancaster University.

Today, thanks to the advances in visual and imaging technologies, we can as easily see ourselves from the inside as on the outside. Yet, our body involves not only structures, but also functions. The majority of them are rhythmical. The most obvious one is perhaps the sleep-wake cycle, also known as circadian. But there are many other rhythms, operating on different time-scales, such as the beating of the heart, breathing, brain activity and metabolic activity. The body is an orchestra of irregular rhythms in which the key to good functioning lies in their coordination.

In this talk, Prof. Aneta Stefanovska will discuss technological advances in the monitoring of a variety of biological clocks and ways of modelling them mathematically. She will also introduce new physics that is being developed to describe the interactions between the rhythms and how this can improve our understanding of diseases such as dementia, malaria and melanoma, and facilitate their diagnosis and treatment.