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Mathematical Biology

BBC Radio Wales - Science Cafe, Mathematical Biology

Adam discovers how mathematicians are helping to solve the mysteries of biology.

Adam meets mathematical biologist Dr. Thomas Woolley from Cardiff University to learn how mathematicians can explain a leopard’s spots, a zebra’s stripes and the spread of disease.

How does a leopard get its spots and a zebra its stripes? What can the zombie apocalypse teach us about preventing the spread of disease? And what can we learn from a field full of sweaty grasshoppers? In this week’s show Adam is in conversation with mathematical biologist Dr. Thomas Woolley. Thomas, of Cardiff University’s School of Mathematics, uses mathematics to understand  biological processes and the mechanisms by which genes create everything from human fingerprints to the rings in a lemur’s tale. Adam talks to Thomas about his career, his research as a mathematical biologist and his mathematical outreach to prisoners at HMP Cardiff and even to theatre audiences

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