Systems Biology: Integrative, Comparative, and Multi-Scale Modeling

Systems Biology is an exciting, emerging discipline at the interface of biological and informational sciences. Over the past several decades, biologists have been accumulating detailed knowledge of the building blocks of biological systems e.g., DNA, RNA, genes, proteins, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and ecologies. Genomics has provided us with an enormous collection of molecular parts.  Anatomical, physiological, molecular, cellular, and structural approaches to biology have begun to transform our understanding of how these specific parts of living things function. However, biological systems are more than simply a collection of molecules, cells, or organs. We need to understand how these parts work together to form dynamic functional units so that we can precisely describe, model, and simulate biological systems.

During this Symposium on modeling in Systems Biology, some of the worlds leading experimental and computational scientists and engineers working in microbial, plant, animal, and human systems will convene on the campus of Iowa State University. Shown below are the speakers who have committed to present their recent discoveries as well as discuss current and future research and educational challenges in bioinformatics.  As in past years, the Symposium will be set in a venue designed to promote informal discussion and interaction, potentiating collaborations. It will provide the opportunity for students and younger researchers to gain a working knowledge of the current state of the field and the researchers who are expanding it.  More information is available at http://www.bb.iastate.edu/~gfst/phomepg.html

Gary Benson, Boston University

Hamid Bolouri, California Institute of Technology

Rodrigo Gutierrez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Steve Horvath, UCLA School of Public Health

Stefan Hoops, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

David Hume, University of Edinburgh

Maricel G. Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Yiannis Kaznessis, University of Minnesota

Melissa Kemp, Georgia Tech & Emory University

Dan Kliebenstein, University of California, Davis

Lauren McIntyre, University of Florida, Gainsville

Graziano Pesole, University of Bari, Via Orabona

Teresa Przytycka,NCBI, NLM, NIH

Antoni Rafalski, DuPont Experimental Station

Timothy Ravasi, U. C. San Diego

Libby Shoop, Macalester College

Mona Singh, Princeton University

Barbara Stranger, Harvard Medical School

Chao Tang, University of California-San Francisco