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homepage		Physical Biology of Cellular Information Processing	Manuel Razo-Mejia | Ph.D. Thesis	title title_url description Summary # The ability to adapt is central to the definition of 'Life'. Adaptation can be found across the biological scales, governing the nanosecond-scale conformational switching of proteins to ecological dynamics. This website presents the text of my Ph.D. thesis in which I dissected adaptive processes at the molecular and organismal level. All research, unless otherwise stated, was performed at the California Institute of Technology under the guidance of <a href="http://rpgroup.caltech.edu/">Rob Phillips</a>.	title excerpt cta url Acknowledgements On the shoulders of giants. read acknowledgements title excerpt cta url Abstract The scope of adaptation in transcriptional regulation read abstract title excerpt cta url Chapter I: Introduction The ubiquity of adaptive behavior in biological matter. read chapter_01 title excerpt cta url Chapter II: Molecular Adaptation A Predictive Theory of Allosteric Induction read chapter_02