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The aim of the proposed seminar series is to establish an inter-disciplinary dialog between the biological community and scientists involved in other systems disciplines, stimulating collaborative efforts addressing challenging problems in systems biology.
Systems biology requires powerful mathematical approaches for analysis and modeling of the remarkable complexity of living organisms. Successes achieved by systems sciences in modeling of physical, social and other systems phenomena encouraged us to propose a series of inter-disciplinary seminars to explore the application of complex systems theory utilized by these sciences to systems biology.
The participants will include invited experts along with the scientific community of Argonne and the University of Chicago. Seminars will take place at ANL and Computation Institute and will be available to the scientists and students at both institutions and to a large national and international scientific community via the Access Grid. The series will be organized into six one-day seminars covering the following topics:
1. Oscillations and Emergence in Biological systems
2. Self-organization and pattern formation
3. Cell Modeling
4. Biological networks
5. Fractals in Biology
6. Scientific Discovery via advanced visualization.
Each seminar will consist of invited talks by leaders in complex systems theory and investigators who have demonstrated original approaches to the study of biological phenomena. The talks will be followed by discussions among all participants and the interest groups, with the aim of encouraging continued collaboration and exploring of future funding opportunities.
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