Ph.D. defense by Sine Zambach Feb 28th
Sine Katharina Zambach defends her thesis:
Regulatory Relations Represented in Logics and Biomedical Texts
Tuesday the 28th February 2012 at 13.00 – 16.00 in room 43-2.29
Abstract
Regulatory networks are used for modeling of varying complexity within biology, economics and other fields that apply dynamic systems. In biomedicine, regulatory networks are widely used to model regulatory pathways, characterized by processes containing gene products and smaller molecules that regulate each other through different mechanisms along different paths. The focus of this dissertation is to investigate aspects of biomedical semantics of regulatory relations in regulatory networks, i.e. "positively regulates", "negatively regulates" and "regulates" within a framework for knowledge representation based on logics. Composition in class relationship logic is also explored and applications of the formalizations are suggested.
Assessment Committee
Mads Rosendahl, Associate Professor, CBIT, Roskilde University (chairman)
Stefan Schulz, Professor, Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik und Dokumentation,Medizinische Universität Graz
Jürgen Wedekind, Senior Researcher, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen University
Head of defense
Keld Bødker, Head of Doctoral School, CBIT, Roskilde University
Supervisor
Troels Andreasen, Professor, CBIT, Roskilde University
Thesis is available for examination at Roskilde University Library
and here: http://www.ruc.dk/~sz/Regrel/thesis/thesis.pdf
After the defense CBIT will host a reception