Hormone Circuits 2021

Lecture Notes and exercises 

• Lecture 1 - Weight Set Point 1 (Recording, Notes)

• Lecture 2 - Weight  Set Point 2 (Recording, Notes)

Exercise 1 

• Lecture 3 - The insulin-glucose circuit (Recording, Notes)

• Lecture 4 - The BIG model (Recording, Notes)

• Lecture 5 - Transition from health to disease as a bifurcation (Recording, Notes)

Exercise 2 

• Lecture 6 - HPA axis as oscillator (Recording, Notes)

• Lecture 7 - Major depression and the slow timescale of treatment (Recording, Notes)

Exercise 3 

• Lecture 8 - The Ovulation Number (Recording, Notes)

• Lecture 9 - Thyroid and its discontents (Recording, Notes)

• Lecture 10 - Autoimmune disease as a fragility of surveillance against hyper-secreting mutants (Recording, Notes)

Exercise 4 

• Lecture 11 - Design principles of hormone circuits (Recording, Periodic table of diseases)

• Lecture 12 - A theory of hormone changes in aging (Recording)

  • Notes :

    • Basic facts of aging

    • Aging and the saturation of damage removal

    • Aging-related diseases and their rising incidence with age

All the recordings can be also viewed in YouTube here

 How to solve ordinary differential equations? (tutorials in various common programing environments)

• Python

• R

• Mathematica

• Matlab