Toward Systems Biology
8-10 October 2007
Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble - France
Presentation
Recent advances in experimental techniques for molecular cell biology
have provided a wealth of information concerning numerous low-level
mechanisms that participate in the life of a cell. It is, however,
commoly recognized that in order to make use of this information and
build models having predictive power for more complex systems,
biological models should be elevated from the verbal and quasi-formal
levels of description in which they are formulated today, and become
closer to the standards of "harder" scientific and engineering
disciplines. Of course, such an upgrading of modeling standards should
involve conceptual innovations to deal with the specifics of biological
systems in terms of complexity and experimental limitations.
The goal of the workshop it to bring together potential participants in
this systems biology endeavor, that is system-aware biologists together
with researchers in domains that may provide a source of inspiration to
this evolving field, most notably engineering discplines like computer
science, electronics and control as well as physics and applied
mathematics.
Among the topics that will be discussed in the workshop we mention:
- Levels of abstraction in dynamical models (discrete, continuous and hybrid models)
- Coping with incomplete and uncertain information
- The use of models in the experimentation process
- Formal semantics for model description languages
- Analysis and simulation tools
- Examples of systems and models
- Differences between natural and engineered systems and their models
- Case studies
Confirmed speakers
- Grégory Batt, INRIA
- Gilles Bernot, Polytech'Nice
- Frédéric Boyer, CEA Grenoble
- Thao Dang, CNRS-Verimag
- Hidde de Jong, INRIA
- Jacques Demongeot, UJF-TIMC
- Sol Efroni, NIH
- François Fages, INRIA
- Eric Fanchon, CNRS-TIMC
- Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
- Hans Geiselmann, UJF
- Adam Halasz, UPenn
- David Harel, Weizmann
- Koret Hirschberg, Tel-Aviv Univ
- Hillel Kugler, Microsoft Research Cambridge
- John Lygeros, ETH Zurich
- Oded Maler, CNRS-VERIMAG
- Amir Pnueli, Weizmann and NYU
- Yves Pommier, NIH
- Heike Siebert, Berlin Univ
- Michel Thellier, Rouen Univ
- Denis Thieffry, Marseille Univ
- Nicolas Thierry-Mieg CNRS-TIMC
- René Thomas, ULB
Poster session
We invite you to submit abstracts for possible presentation during the poster session.
Abstracts (no longer than one page) should be send to
gregory.batt-at-imag-dot-fr before Sept, 16th. Note that space for
poster is limited.
Program committee
- Jacques Demongeot, UJF-TIMC
- Hidde de Jong, INRIA
- Oded Maler, CNRS-VERIMAG
- Naama Barkai, Weizmann
- Amir Pnueli, Weizmann and NYU
- Eran Segal, Weizmann
Registration and accomodations
To register visit the registration page. For other inquiries contact congres@floralis.fr.
The workshop will take place at Maison Jean Kuntzmann on the Grenoble University campus (see here for location and directions)
A list of hotels in grenoble is given here. There is also a link to an official reservation web site on the registration page.
Financial Support
Supported
in part by Verimag, INRIA, CNRS, the GDR "Bioinformatique Moléculaire"
, the Complex Systems Institute, the Joseph Fourier University, and the French-Israeli collaboration
project
"Computational Modeling of Incomplete Biological Regulatory Networks"
between UJF and Weizmann Institute
Local organization
by Oded Maler, Colas LeGuernic (Verimag) and Gregory Batt (INRIA), Florence Merchie (Floralis).
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