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The New Mexico Spatiotemporal Modeling Center will host a Symposium on Systems Imaging: Applications in Immunology and Cancer on January 12 & 13, 2012
Published October 31, 2011
Systems Imaging: Applications in Immunology and Cancer is a two-day exploration of the latest developments in five key research areas:
- In vivo Imaging
- Molecular and Cellular Imaging
- Spatial Modeling from Bioimage Data
- Bioimage Management and Informatics
- Emerging Bioimaging Tools and Technologies
A truly outstanding group of nationally-recognized investigators will present their recent research, complemented by invited speakers from the New Mexico research community. For more information and to register: http://stmc.health.unm.edu/systems-imaging-applications-in-immunology-and-cancer/
The New Mexico Spatiotemporal Modeling Center announces the Art of Systems Biology and Nanotechnology event in Santa Fe, March 30-31, 2012
Published October 7, 2011
The third annual Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience event is starting to take shape and will be held again at the The Santa Fe Complex on March 30 & 31, 2012. Keynote speakers include Dr. Ron Vale from the University of California at San Francisco, Dr. Piotr Grodzinski from the National Cancer Institute and Dr. Bette Korber from Los Alamos National Laboratory. 2012′s Artist-in-Residence is Graham Johnson from grahamj.com. Visit The Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience page for more information and a link to the 2011 Archives.
CCBS at UC Irvine announces January, 2012 3-week Short Course in Systems Biology
Published September 29, 2011
We are pleased to announce our second annual 3-week National Short Course in Systems Biology to be held at the University of California, Irvine from January 9 – 27, 2012.
The course emphasis will be on the systems biology of morphogenesis and spatial dynamics. These two themes are well represented by participating faculty expertise from departments affiliated with the Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS), the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD) and the Institute for Genomics & Bioinformatics (IGB) at UC Irvine.
The course format consists of didactic lectures covering central topics in systems biology, extensive laboratory work on biological projects to develop practical skills and in depth computational analysis/modeling of results. Consequently, we hope to attract graduate students, postdocs, faculty and industry researchers from a broad range of scientific disciplines with strong interests towards long term commitments to Systems Biology research but with little or no formal prior training. To facilitate entry into this field, we offer 1 week optional Preparatory Workshops in either foundational biological paradigms or computational/mathematical tools dependent on an individual applicant’s background. The subsequent Systems Biology Core Course (2 weeks) is intended to present a high-level exploration of biological problems and questions from a systems biology perspective.
Space is limited; early registration deadline – December 2nd 2011. Tuition fellowships/travel awards are available – please inquire for eligibility. Further information and application details can be found at our CCBS course website: http://ccbs.bio.uci.edu/shortcourse/shortcourse.html, or by contacting Felix Grun, Ph.D., Education and Outreach Director at fgrun@uci.edu, or 949/824-6432.
Systems Biology Center New York Annual Symposium, December 1 2011
Published September 19, 2011
The Systems Biology Center New York Annual Symposium will be held Thursday, December 1, 2011 at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York. Admission to the symposium is free of charge, but registration is required. To register, please contact Pedro Martinez at pedro.martinez@mssm.edu or register online at http://sbcny.org/registration.htm
Schedule information can be found at http://sbcny.org/2011_symposium.htm
2011 Symposium Speakers
Marc W. Kirschner, PhD (Keynote Speaker)
Harvard Medical School
Mammalian Cell Growth and Size Control
Robert Lefkowitz, MD
Duke University Medical Center
Seven Transmembrane Receptors
Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Nature of Genes and Variants from Genomic Mapping: Lessons from Cardiac Repolarization and Sudden Cardiac Death
Alexander Hoffman, PhD
UC San Diego, San Diego Systems Biology Center
Combinatorial and Dynamic Control within Pathogen-Responsive Gene Regulatory Networks
Michael Snyder, PhD
Stanford University
Adventures in Personal Genomics and Whole Omics Profiling
Cristina Alberini, PhD
New York University
Mechanisms for Memory Enhancement
Andrea Califano, PhD
Columbia University
A Systems Biology Approach to Elucidating Dysregulated Mechanisms in Cancer
Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, PhD
Duke University Medical Center
Metabolomics: A Global Biochemical Approach for Systems Pharmacology
Ravi Iyengar, PhD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Systems Biology Center New York
Systems Pharmacology for Adverse Event Prediction
The Systems Biology Center New York Published Teaching Resources for their Systems Biology Course in Science Signaling’s September 13 2011 Online Issue
Published September 15, 2011
The September 13 2011 online issue of Science Signaling is the first of three issues containing Teaching Resources related to a course in systems biology. Members of the Systems Biology Center New York developed a course at Mount Sinai School of Medicine that introduces first-year graduate students to computational principles and approaches. There will be a total of 12 Teaching Resources published in sequential issues of Science Signaling starting with the September 13 issue. Each of the Teaching Resources will provide lecture notes, slides, problem sets, and answer keys.
The lectures notes, slides and problem sets are accessible from the following page on the SBCNY website: http://sbcny.org/biomedical_modeling.htm
Teaching Resources Published in the Science Signaling September 13 2011 Online Issue
- Systems Biology–Biomedical Modeling
- Introduction to Statistical Methods to Analyze Large Data Sets: Principal Components Analysis
- Introduction to Statistical Methods for Analyzing Large Data Sets: Gene-Set Enrichment Analysis
- Introduction to Network Analysis in Systems Biology
Teaching Resources Published in the Science Signaling September 20 2011 Online Issue
- An Introduction to Dynamical Systems
- An Introduction to MATLAB
- Obtaining and Estimating Kinetic Parameters from the Literature
Teaching Resources Published in the Science Signaling September 27 2011 Online Issue
- Biomedical Model Fitting and Error Analysis
- Bistability in Biochemical Signaling Models
- Computational Modeling of the Cell Cycle
- Developing Models in Virtual Cell
- Simulation of Stochastic Biological Phenomena
- Probabilistic Reasoning in Data Analysis
New National Center for Systems Biology to Create “Virtual Rat”
Published August 11, 2011
National Center for Systems Biology to be established at Medical College: Researchers to Create “Virtual Rat”
The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a five-year, $13 million grant to establish a National Center for Systems Biology.
Daniel Beard, PhD, professor of physiology and member of the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, is the Principal Investigator for the grant.
The first goal of the center is to create a computational model that will integrate data in the form of a virtual physiological rat to help investigators predict and understand physiological function and disease. This will fill a major gap in the understanding of the multiple genetic and environmental causes of diseases. Researchers working on The Virtual Physiological Rat (VPR) will develop computational tools to decipher the underlying causes of diseases, including hypertension, renal disease, heart failure, and metabolic syndromes. Computer simulations will be used to translate the findings from animals to yield new information about complex disease in humans.
New Mexico Center for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cell Signaling Announces The Fifth Annual q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing August 10-14, 2011
Published June 16, 2011
The Fifth Annual q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing
August 10 – 14, 2011, Santa Fe, NM
The Fifth Annual q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing is intended to advance predictive modeling of cellular regulation. The emphasis is on modeling and quantitative experimentation for understanding and predicting the behaviors of particular regulatory systems, phenomena that manifest themselves in many biological systems, and/or general principles of cellular information processing.
The single-track program will include invited talks from leading experimental and theoretical researchers, as well as contributed talks, poster presentations, and tutorials selected from abstract submissions. The program includes two banquets, tutorials, multiple sessions covering a range of scientific topics, a special session on the social aspects of science, and two evening poster sessions.
What is a laboratory mouse? Center for Genome Dynamics researchers reveal the details
Published May 29, 2011
Mice and humans share about 95 percent of their genes, and mice are recognized around the world as the leading experimental model for studying human biology and disease. But, says Jackson Laboratory Professor Gary Churchill, Ph.D., researchers can learn even more “now that we really know what a laboratory mouse is, genetically speaking.”
Churchill and Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, leading an international research team, created a genome-wide, high-resolution map of most of the inbred mouse strains used today. Their conclusion, published in Nature Genetics: Most of the mice in use today represent only limited genetic diversity, which could be significantly expanded with the addition of more wild mouse populations.
International Conference on the Systems Biology of Human Disease, 22-24 June 2011
Published April 6, 2011
Registration is now open for the “International Conference on the Systems Biology of Human Disease,” a three-day conference scheduled for June 22-24, 2011, at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Confirmed speakers include Philippe Bastiaens (Max Planck Institute, Dortmund), Chris Sander (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) and Ralph Weissleder (Massachusetts General Hospital). There will be also two poster sessions for which we invite the submission of poster abstracts. The Program Committee will review all abstracts and nominate the top two submissions for full-length talks. Several more posters will be selected for “lightning talks” designed to preview the poster presentation.
Registration and additional information can be found on the SBHD 2011 website.
1st Annual SoCal Systems Biology Conference
Published January 13, 2011
January 29-30, 2011, UC Irvine, Student Center
Co-sponsored by the Center for Complex Biological Systems (UC Irvine) and the San Diego Center for Systems Biology (UCSD)
Thirty speakers from twelve southern California academic campuses (UCI, UCSD, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, CSUF, CSULA, CSULB, CSUP, USC, Caltech and Pomona College) will present short research talks for this inaugural annual meeting covering a diverse range of topics of broad interest to the Southern California research community. A student/postdoc poster session will be held on Jan 29 (Sat) to complement the program. For additional information regarding the Conference and registration: http://ccbs.bio.uci.edu/SoCalSysBio/index.html