Emerging Modelling Methodologies in Medicine and Biology

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Emerging Modelling Methodologies in Medicine and Biology

 20 - 24 Jul 2009

ICMS

  • Jamie Davies , University of Edinburgh
  • Michael Grinfeld, University of Strathclyde
  • Steven Webb, University of Strathclyde

About:

Objectives:

  • Discussion of recent modelling techniques, such as process algebra, reverse-engineering of genetic networks, Gröbner bases and control-theoretic methods 
  • Clarification of fundamental philosophical difficulties of modelling biological systems and approaches to overcoming these difficulties 
  • Identifying new areas in ageing, cancer, developmental biology, and evolution, that could benefit from sound modelling 

Speakers

William Bechtel, University of California - Thinking Dynamically About Biological Mechanisms  

Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh - Internal Coarse-Graining of Rule Based Models of Signalling Networks  

Claire Dauly, Lein Diagnostics - Processing Techniques for Confocal Eye Measurements

Jamie Davies, University of Edinburgh - Modelling Morphogenesis in Silico and in Wetware

James R Faeder, University of Pittsburgh - Rule-Based Modelling of Biological Signalling: a Progress Report 

Tom Freeman, Fios Genomics and the Roslin Institute - Network Visualisation and Analysis of Complex Biological Data 

Michael Grinfeld, University of Strathclyde - The Difficulties of Mathematising Biology  

Jeremy Gunawardena, Harvard Medical School - Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Mathematical Approaches to Biological Complexity 

Tom Kirkwood, Newcastle University - Mathematics and the Science of Ageing  

Arthur D Lander, University of California - Biology as Strategy: Exploring the Control of Growth and Form  

Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Tech - Parameter Estimation for Boolean Models  

Hugh MacMillan, Clemson University - Modelling of Genetic and Environmental Factors in the Generation of Neuronal Variability During Cerebral Cortical Development 

Chris Myers, Cornell University - The Geometry of Robustness in Biological Networks and Cellular Information Processing  

Gordon Plotkin, CSBE - A Calculus and a Language for (Some of) Systems Biology

Karthik Raman, University of Zurich - Systems-Level Modelling of Pathogenic Organisms for Drug Target Identification

Baruch Rinkevich, Israel Oceanographic Research Institute - Coral Colony Astogeny- Modular Organisms where Biology and Mathematics Meet

Peter Schuster, University of Vienna - Mathematical Modelling of Evolution

Ana M Soto, Tufts University & University of Ulster - Complex Causality

Marc Van Regenmortel, University of Strasbourg - Context Dependence and Relational Nature of Immunological Data Collected for Mathematical Modelling 

William C Wimsatt, University of Chicago - Nature at the Edge: Simplifying a Complex System by Natural Means, or One Way to Reason with Messy Systems and Get Away with it?  

Olaf Wolkenhauer, University of Rostock - The (re)Construction of Realities in Systems Biology 

Sponsors and Funders:

The workshop was funded by the EPSRC, the LMS, the CSBE and Bridging the Gap (University of Strathclyde).