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2009 NSF Computational Cell Biology Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Computational cell biology is the field of study that applied the
mathematics of dynamical systems together with computer simulation
techniques to the study of cellular processes. The field encompassed
several topics that have been studied long enough to be well
established in their own right such as calcium signaling, molecular
motors and cell motility, the cell cycle, and gene expression during
development. In addition to providing a recognizable larger community
for topics such as these, this course provided a base for the
development of newer areas of inquiry - for example the dynamics of
intracellular second-messenger signaling, of programmed cell death, of
mitotic chromosome movements, and of synthetic gene networks. Unlike
computational genomics or bioinformatics, computational cell biology is
focused on simulation of the molecular machinery
(genes-proteins-metabolites) that underlie the physiological behavior
(input-output characteristics) of living cells.
The three week course in Computational Cell Biology incorporated a series of didactic lectures on the mathematics of dynamical systems, computational simulation techniques, cell biology and molecular biology. Practicing theoreticians and experimentalists will rotate in
for 1-3 day visits during the course to give lectures and interact with the students. Midway through the course, students selected an area for independent study, and the focus of the last week of the course was largely on these projects, supplemented by continued visiting lecturers.
Some scholarship support is available to students - please see applications materials.
The three week course in Computational Cell Biology incorporated a series of didactic lectures on the mathematics of dynamical systems, computational simulation techniques, cell biology and molecular biology. Practicing theoreticians and experimentalists will rotate in
for 1-3 day visits during the course to give lectures and interact with the students. Midway through the course, students selected an area for independent study, and the focus of the last week of the course was largely on these projects, supplemented by continued visiting lecturers.
Some scholarship support is available to students - please see applications materials.
