Subject: Computational Challenges in Life Sciences (2nd Circular)

From: [email-masked] (Dr. Dave Winkler)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 14:19:16 +1000

>Date: Tue, 12 Dec 95 11:59:44 EST
>From: [email-masked]
>To: [email-masked]
>
>Second CSIRO Symposium on "COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES IN LIFE SCIENCES"
>5-7 February 1996
>Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
>
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>Second Circular and Call for Papers
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>
>Visit Melbourne for three days during the Southern Summer and hear reports
>of some of the most fascinating research in computational biology, medicine,
>neurophysiology, agronomy... Life Sciences in general.
>Or tell others about your research!
>
>Have you seen "The Visible Man"? How can it be used to simulate deformation of
>the body to simulate obesity, musclebuilding, infection and trauma?
>How is Visible Human used in a surgical simulation?
>
>Can the human brain be thought of as a computer or a dynamical system?
>Can computation help us understand the functioning of a nervous system -
>from a neuron to the whole system?
>
>... and lots more in protein biology, plant modelling, drug design, etc.
>
>
>The (continually updated) information on the 2nd CSIRO SYMPOSIUM ON
>"COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES IN LIFE SCIENCES", 5-7 FEBRUARY 1996, MELBOURNE
>
>is available on WWW. For general information, list of invited speakers,
>titles of talks and abstracts, call for papers,
>ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION (as easy as a mouse click),
>and other items please browse through:
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>http://www.mel.dit.csiro.au/LifeSci/cfp.html
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>
>Programme
>
>Invited speakers:
>
>Day 1: Monday 5-Feb-1996: - Computational Neurosciences Symposium
>
>Professor Max Bennett
>   University of Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
>   Modelling the synapse
>Professor Steve Redman,
>   Australian National University, ACT, AUSTRALIA
>   Modelling individual neurons
>Dr Joel Bornstein
>   University of Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
>   Large scale computational reconstruction of enteric nerve circuits
>Professor James Wright
>   Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, AUSTRALIA
>   Models of cerebral dynamics
>Dr Timothy van Gelder
>   University of Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
>   Computation and dynamics in Cognitive Science: An Overview
>
>Day 2: Tuesday 6-Feb-1996 : - Virtual Plants, Agronomy
>
>Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
>   University of Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
>   L-systems: from the theory to plant modeling methodology
>Dr Jim Hanan
>   CSIRO Division of Entomology, Plant Insect Group, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
>   Practical aspects of virtual plant research
>Professor W R Remphrey
>   University of Manitoba, Manitoba, CANADA
>   Architectural modelling of trees: A question of detail and complexity
>Professor David Green
>   Charles Sturt University, NSW, AUSTRALIA
>   Modelling plants in landscapes
>Dr Art Diggle
>   University of Western Australia, WA, AUSTRALIA
>   Examples of agronomic processes represented with collections
>   of interacting objects
>
>Day 3: Wednesday 7-Feb-1996 : - Visible Human, Biomolecular Engineering,
>Biochemistry, Bioinformatics
>
>Professor V Spitzer
>   University of Colorado, Colorado, USA
>   The Visible Human Project - Male and Female
>Professor Carmay Lim
>   Academia Sinica, TAIWAN
>   Protein Dynamics: Correlation between NMR Spectroscopy, X-ray
>   Crystallography and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
>Dr Geoffrey J. Barton
>   Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
>   Protein Structure Prediction: Meeting the challenge of genome projects
>Dr Tim Littlejohn
>   Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS), AUSTRALIA
>   Delivering the goods: putting solutions to computational problems
>   into the hands of biologists
>Dr Jill E. Gready
>   Australian National University, AUSTRALIA
>   Reaction mechanisms in enzyme active sites using a "divide and conquer"
>   approach: mixed quantum and molecular mechanics (qm/MM)
>Dr Georg F. Weiller
>   Australian National University, ACT, AUSTRALIA
>   Graphical Representations in Sequence Analysis
>Professor Benoit Roux
>   Universite de Montreal, CANADA
>   Molecular Dynamics simulations of membrane proteins
>Professor Matthew Witten
>   University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>   Recent Advances In Computational Medicine: The Man In The Machine Revisited
>
>Hoping to meet you at the Symposium!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>Dr Marek Michalewicz,
>Organising and Program Committees Secretary,
>CSIRO Supercomputing Support Group,
>Division of Information Technology,
>723 Swanston Street, Carlton,
>Vic. 3053, Australia
>phone: +61 3 9282 2621;  fax: +61 3 9282 2600
>e-mail: [email-masked]
>

Cheers,

Dave

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