Systems Biology events 2004-2006

BIOSIM MEETING

University of Warwick, Mathematics Institute, Monday 3rd- Wednesday 5th April 2006

Organiser: Professor David Rand

Programme

SemStat and European Mathematical Society Summer School

Statistics in Genetics and Molecular Biology

University of Warwick, Saturday 10th - Friday 16th September 2005

Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/semstat/

Cellular Protein Translocation

University of Warwick, Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th April 2005

Organisers: Markus Kirkilionis (Warwick), Colin Robinson (Warwick) & Dirk Görlich (Heidelberg)

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Programme

CPT2005 was created to bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working in cell biology to discuss the following questions:

What do we know about cellular regulation mechanisms of protein translocation?
What kind of mathematical tools are needed to describe protein distributions inside cells?
What can be expected from a 'quantitative microscopy'?
What is the benefit of combining theories of protein transport & reaction with quantitative experiments?

This specialised conference focussed on the discussion of new trends in cellular protein translocation research, with emphasis on the relationship between current experimental techniques and theoretical approaches.

Areas included:

The biology of protein transport across membranes
Protein transport and the cell nucleus

There were three themes:

Theme I: Current Trends in Protein Translocation (experimental techniques, quantification)

Theme II: Microscopy & Imaging (quantitative microscopy, image analysis)

Theme III: Theoretical Analysis (reaction schemes, transport mechanisms, numerical approaches)

SEB Plant Frontier Meeting

University of Sheffield, Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd March 2005

Organised by the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in association with the Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network (GARNet) and IPCR.

Researchers from around the world met at the University of Sheffield to discuss "the very Frontier of Plant Biology" (SEB).

The abstracts from the symposium can be viewed here.

Mathematical Modelling of Plant Development and Gene Networks

University of Warwick, Wednesday 26th - Friday 28th May 2004

Organisers: Andrew Millar and Enrico Coen

Funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation

To view the workshop poster please click here

Programme

Space and Time in Cells

University of Warwick, Monday 24th - Wednesday 26th May 2004

Organiser: Nigel Burroughs

Programme

Regulation of cell function has become increasingly complex with the emergence of flouresence studies demonstrating extensive active protein movement and protein localisation within cells. This can be transient, for example under cell signalling, or intrinsic to a cellular process where cell compartmentalisation is used to segregate proteins. This was a multidisciplinary meeting with theory (modelling), computation and experiment represented. Topics included cytoskeleton dynamics (eg motility), spatial-temporal compartmentalisation in signalling (eg the immunological synapse), and transport and protein targetting (golgi/ER).

Speakers included:

Marie-France Carlier (CNRS),
Micah Dembo (Boston),
Mike Dustin (NY),
Thomas Harder (Oxford),
Chris Hawes (Oxford),
Anne Kenworthy (Vanderbilt),
Avi Kupfer (NJC),
Mark Landree (John Hopkins),
Alex Mogilner (Davis),
David Stephens (Bristol),
David A. Weitz (Harvard),
Michael White (Liverpool),
Christoph Wuelfing (Texas)

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