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Notes by user Dervis Can Vural (Univ. Notre Dame) for Dynamic Multi-System Resilience in Human Aging

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Ravi: "Gerontropy". In additional to directional changes in health indicators do we get an increase in variance?
Alfons: Multiscale approaches. Do multiple length and time scales really matter when they are separated? Can interdependence network approach be improved to take into account hierarchical structures of organs/tissues/cells/molecules?
Ravi, Chhanda: How can theorists make themselves useful for NIH? How to communicate "theoretically driven" projects to NIH?
Chhanda: Resilience builds up over time. Effect of early life history on aging. Comparative biology approaches e.g. naked mole rat
Ravi, Chhanda: Very interesting plasticity effect: Physiological state does not come back exactly to the same point after perturbation. A theoretical description of physiological elasticity vs. plasticity
Ingrid: Idea on multiple tipping points that are coupled. I recommend checking out Kramer's escape problem. Chhanda excellent question: Are young ecosystems more resilient, just like young people. Alfons had an excellent question: what can you say about the dynamics by knowing only qualitative causal relationships. An idea: if there are multiple models describing the same subsystems and their interactions, can these be combined/reconciled to get a result more accurate than all models individually?
Peter: Potentially useful model but one should be careful about drawing conclusions from single runs. e.g. Flipping coins would also yield similar ups and downs if one looked at individual runs. It would be good to check if the model gives Gompertz (exponential) mortality curves or Weibull. I would also have critical questions about sensitivity to parameters and system size, i.e. if the damage rate was close to repair rate I suspect that the system would never collapse (given large system size).
Heather. Very interesting conceptual graph derived from a real patient where multiple systems failing at different times at different rates. This resonates with Chhanda's observation that resilience is not one thing, but a multi-dimensional vector.

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Title	Author name	Source name	Year	Citation count From Scopus. Refreshed every 5 days.	Page views
Aging in complex interdependency networks	Dervis C. Vural, Greg Morrison, L. Mahadevan	Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics	2014	19	28
A Tissue Engineered Model of Aging: Interdependence and Cooperative Effects in Failing Tissues	A. Acun, D. C. Vural, P. Zorlutuna	Scientific Reports	2017	6	15
Interdependence theory of tissue failure: Bulk and boundary effects	Daniel Suma, Aylin Acun, Pinar Zorlutuna, Dervis Can Vural	Royal Society Open Science	2018	3	21
Inferring network structure from cascades	Sushrut Ghonge, Dervis Can Vural	Physical Review E	2017	3	14