Systems Biology

Jinzhi Lei (Ph.D. 2001, Beihang University) is Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tiangong University, China. He was a postdoc at UC, Irvine (2004–2005) and Associate Researcher at the Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, China (2006–2019). His research focuses on modeling dynamical blood diseases, cancer development and stem cell regeneration.

• 1. Biological Background–Information, Energy, and Matter.- 2. Mathematical Preliminary–Continuous Dynamics.- 3. Mathematical Preliminary–Stochastic Modeling.- 4. Stochastic Modeling of Gene Expression.- 5. Mathematical Models for Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics.- 6. Dynamical Modeling of Stem Cell Regeneration.- 7. Mathematical Models of Morphogen Gradients and Growth Control.

“Systems Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation, by Jinzhi Lei, is firmly in the bottom up camp, where understanding systems at the mechanistic level is important. … this is a worthy text to have on one’s bookshelf.” (Herbert M Sauro, SIAM Review, Vol. 66 (3), August, 2024)