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Systems Biology: Integrative, Comparative,

and Multi-Scale Modeling

 

 

 

The subject of the Symposium is Systems Biology and the focus is on current research in integrated and comparative biological modeling at multiple scales of investigation.

 

The Symposium will begin with a session on a vision of Systems Biology; past, present, future. The bulk of the Symposium will then cover the Modeling of biological processes at molecular, cellular and organismal levels, and at multiple scales of investigation. The meeting will emphasize both current applications of available modeling tools as well as pioneering research in fundamental aspects of biological modeling.

The intended audience is the students and faculty of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate major at Iowa State University, as well as researchers in allied groups such as Interdepartmental Genetics, Immunobiology, and Plant Pathology. Additional Departments with significant numbers of potentially interested students and faculty include Agronomy; Animal Science; Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology; Chemical Engineering; Computer Science; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Veterinary Microbiology.

 

The Symposium will cover four dates (Thursday June 11- Sunday June 14, 2009) and 16-18 speakers who are world leaders in their respective fields are expected to provide 45-60 minute talks. In addition, 8-10 additional speakers selected from submitted abstracts will give 15-20 minute talks. A poster session will be held to provide an opportunity for students to present their ongoing research.

 

This symposium will be one of an ongoing series of symposia sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at ISU. The ISU Symposia attract a worldwide audience, with a broad mix of principal investigators, postdocs, and graduate students. The atmosphere is informal and the format allows for extensive discussion both during and between sessions. An important purpose of these symposia is to promote interactions and new collaborations between individuals who might not normally come together at a single symposium. We will encourage participation by the larger biological research community at Iowa State University and other research communities in the region such as other universities in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

 

A unique aspect of this conference is that the conference will be part of the cross-disciplinary training of students in the ISU NSF IGERT training grant in Computational Biology. These IGERT students will have access to the wide variety of world-class speakers at this Symposium, as well as other scientists attending. The students will have an opportunity to present their research in a poster session, as well as compete for the opportunity to present a short talk at one of the sessions, and also interact with speakers through assisting with transportation, etc. for the Symposium. Overall, the Symposium will be an excellent Professional Development opportunity for these students.