Analysing models of intracellular calcium dynamics with multiple timescales
by
Emily Harvey
University of Auckland
Coauthors: Vivien Kirk, James Sneyd, Martin Wechselberger

Calcium plays a crucial role in a huge range of cellular processes with oscillations in intracellular calcium concentration thought to act as intracellular messages, relaying information within cells to regulate cell activity. A key feature of the intracellular calcium dynamics found experimentally is that some physiological processes occur much faster than others, leading to models with different time scales. In this talk I will show how geometric singular perturbation techniques which exploit this separation in timescales can be used to analyse calcium models.

Date received: December 16, 2009