The aim of the seminar is to understand the structure and theory of the isometry groups of CAT(0)-spaces and their lattices. The papers [6, 7] by Caprace and Monod provide the fundamental theory. Our background reference for CAT(0)-spaces is the book by Bridson and Haefliger [4]. Further papers are taken as a reference in suitable cases and if needed.

Forty years ago, a simple model of allosteric mechanisms (indirect interactions between distinct sites), used initially to explain feedback-inhibited enzymes, was presented by Monod, Wyman, and Changeux. We review the MWC theory and its applications for the understanding of signal transduction in biology, and also identify remaining issues that deserve theoretical and experimental substantiation.

Growth of the ruminal bacteria Fibrobacter succinogenes S85, Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1, and R. albus 7 followed Monod kinetics with respect to concentrations of individual pure cellodextrins (cellobiose, cellotriose, cellotetraose, cellopentaose, and cellohexaose). Under the conditions tested, R. flavefaciens FD-1 possesses the greatest capacity to compete for low concentrations of these c...

Between 1942 and 1956, Jacques Monod, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine, contributed a number of papers to the Annales de l' Institut Pasteur, the ancestor of the journal "Research in Microbiology". Circumstances that led him to publish in the "Annales" are recalled here.

Basic Green 4 or Malachite (MG) is an important dye that found great usage in controlling fish pathogens. The use of MG has been banned but developing, and third-world countries still applications for this dye. Bioremediation dyes using microorganisms on the rise. ability to accurately predict rate bioremediation relies upon gathering accurate decolourisation, which often inhibited at high conc...

We optimize a general model of bioprocesses, which is nonconvex due to the microbial growth in biochemical reactors. formulate convex relaxation and give conditions guaranteeing its exactness both transient steady-state cases. When kinetics are modeled by Contois or, under constant biomass, Monod or Powell functions, second-order cone program, can be solved efficiently at large scales. implemen...