[alife] Fwd: Complex biological networks: Gene regulations and protein interaction

C. Gershenson cgershen at vub.ac.be
Tue Apr 12 06:38:57 PDT 2005


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From: Progetto bionet <bionet at isiosf.isi.it>

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Dear colleague,

please find appended the announcement of an EXYSTENCE Thematic Institute 
on "Complex biological networks: Gene regulations and protein interaction" 
which will take place in September/October in Turin, Italy. We will be 
able to accept a limited number of applications, for further details 
visit http://isiosf.isi.it/~bionet/TI.htm. 

Please forward this message to other potentially interested persons.

Sincerely yours,
Johannes Berg, Michele Leone, Andrea Pagnani, Martin Weigt


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EXYSTENCE Thematic Institute

COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS:
GENE REGULATION AND PROTEIN INTERACTION	

September 19th - October 8th 2005
ISI Foundation, Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy

The traditional approach to molecular biology has been an inherently
local one, collecting and examining data on a single gene, a single
protein, a single biochemical reaction at a time, or at most of a
small number of factors believed to contribute to one specific
function. In the last decades, however, biology experienced
fundamental changes. Rapid and continuing progress of biotechnology
has made fundamental biological mechanisms experimentally accessible
on a genome-wide scale. This "Age of Genomics" is characterized by an
unprecedented wealth of data.

The challenge to utilize this data and turn it into an enhanced
understanding of biological systems is, however, wide open. Global,
systemic, or network perspectives are becoming increasingly
important. Only a highly integrated level of investigation can hope to
be able to address the richness of phenomena observed on the
molecular, on the cellular as well as on the organism scale.

Answering these questions requires a huge interdisciplinary
effort. Therefore, the Thematic Institute aims at bringing together
researchers from biology, bio-informatics and statistical physics
involved in this interdisciplinary field.

In the first week, a series of lectures covering the main issues of
biological networks will be given to establish a common ground among
the different communities, and to fix a minimal "language" that will
enable a fruitful cooperation of the participants.

The second and third weeks are dedicated to free discussion and
cooperation between the participants, and some seminars will allow for
the presentation of related working results.

For more detailled information please visit
  http://isiosf.isi.it/~bionet/TI.htm

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    Carlos Gershenson...
    Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
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