Lecturer: Bas Kooijman
Affiliation: Dept Theoretical Biology, VU University Amsterdam
Workshop: Dept Zoology, Melbourne University.
Date: 2012/08/06
Title: What is DEB theory?

Contents:
1) the role of theory and models in scientific research
2) criteria for general models on energetics
3) empirical patterns: stylised facts
4) supply - demand spectrum for metabolic organisation
5) the ontogeny of DEB theory 
6) why we can have hope for general theory?
7) scales in space and time
8) homeostasis: strong/weak/structural/acquisition/thermal
9) reserve versus structure
10) metabolic memory and residence times of pools of metabolites
11) surface area - volume interactions: changes in shape
12) the evolution of DEB systems
13) static versus dynamic budgets
14) notation
15) DEB resources

Reference:
  http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/research/bib/Kooy2012.pdf