Date：2005/Dec/1（Thu）10:00-12:00
Venue：IIS, University of Tokyo, D Block, Dw601
Invited Speaker：Neurophisiologist　Dr. Juan-Carlos Letelier(Universidad de Chile)

Abstract:
The notion of metabolic closure is presented and analyzed in terms of
Robert Rosen’s theory of (M,R) systems. Recent results concerning (M,R)
systems are reviewed, specially those defining self-referential
equations like f(f) = f. We relate (M,R) systems to Autopoiesis, another
theory centered on metabolic closure, and we speculate how an algebraic
view of metabolism could be used in the analysis of metabolic pathways.
As a helping metaphor we consider it necessary to build, in the context
of (M,R) systems, an analogy to Tellegen’s theorem, but based purely on
closure arguments, for metabolic networks.