/ Announcement
Systems Biochemistry
March 22 - 24, 2010
University of York, UK
http://www.biochemistry.org/
Systems biochemistry will be composed of three linked
Biochemical Society Focused Meetings:
Systems analysis of
metabolism
Signalling and control from a systems perspective
Systems
approaches to health and disease
The meetings will run at the same time,
coming together for plenary lectures, poster sessions and refreshments. The
meetings will run with the same timing (facilitating movement between lecture
theatres as and when desired) with a format of oral presentations by invited
speakers and selected abstracts authors.
Registration for one meeting
will allow attendance at either of the other two meetings (or both), depending
on space availability.
Proceedings (invited speakers) will be published
in Biochemical Society
Transactions
Meeting Background
Systems Biology has emerged in recent years as an approach to biology that aims to discover how function at all levels of biological hierarchy emerges from the interactions between components of biological systems. It may start from the analysis of the patterns of dynamical bahviour of all system components together in a data-driven hypothesis generating mode (top-down systems biology), or from the analysis of how non-linear interactions between a limited number of interacting components generates functional properties where the goal is prediction and modelling of biology behaviour.
The meeting at York is the first Biochemical Society meeting to look at how this new research paradigm is being implemented in many different areas of biochemistry and molecular biology. It is planned as three linked focused meetings: on metabolism, on regulatory networks and signal transduction, and on implications for health and disease. In addition to these three parallel sessions, there will be plenary lectures and common poster sessions. Delegates will be free to move between the meetings, creating individual programmes focusing more on either bacterial or eukaryotic research, or on either experimental or modelling approaches.
In drawing up the
programme, we have been able to benefit from the range of Systems Biology
research initiated in the UK by the investments made by
the BBSRC and EPSRC, which included the creation of six centres of Systems
Biology and three doctoral training centres. In addition, collaborative
research projects have been established with other European countries with
System Biology programmes of their own.
Topics
Systems Biology
Computer simulation
Modelling
Metabolic control analysis
Cell signalling
Cancer
For more details please go to:
http://www.biochemistry.org/
Any queries please
contact: elizabeth.faircliffe@
