Dear Cambridge philosophers of science, CamPoS continues tomorrow, Wednesday 9 May, as usual at 1 p.m. in the HPS department in seminar room 2. We will have HPS's own Agnes Bolinska and collaborator Julie-Anne Gandier of Toronto to speak on ‘Understanding Protein Function through Multiple Models of Structure: Barriers to Integration’. Their abstract is below.
Sincerely, J. Brian Pitts Abstract: In order to understand protein function, information from models of structure generated from different experimental techniques must often be integrated. We show that such integration sometimes takes the form of the undue influence of models of structure produced using one experimental technique on the interpretation of data from another. We argue that interpretation of data should instead take place with close attention to the experimental context in which it was generated, resulting in models that best exhibit features of the protein which that context is designed to showcase. Integration should take place only thereafter and should take the form of “integration that maintains pluralism” (Mitchell & Gronenborn 2017): information from each model should be integrated to inform understandings of protein function, while nonetheless retaining each model. -- J. Brian Pitts Senior Research Associate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] Ph.D., Philosophy/History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
