[alife] IPCAT2012, Cambridge, UK - Call for Papers

[Michael Lones]

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     IPCAT 2012: Ninth International Conference on Information
	            Processing in Cells and Tissues
     31st March - 2nd April 2012
     Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
     http://www.ipcat2012.org/
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Submission deadline: 18th November 2011

The IPCAT series of workshops began in 1995 as a venue to bring
together a multidiscipinary group of scientists interested in
modelling the processes that take place within biological cells and
tissues; whether this interest is for the purpose of understanding
biology or for developing new algorithms or engineered systems based
upon biological principles.

This year's conference will take place in Cambridge, the centre of the
UK's software and biotechnology industries, and will feature invited
presentations by six leading scientists working on biological
problems. To complement this, we are soliciting extended abstracts and
full-length papers from researchers in computer science, biology,
chemistry, engineering, mathematics and other disciplines.

All authors of accepted full-length papers will have the option of
publishing their paper in a companion volume of Springer's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. In addition, authors of selected
papers and abstracts will be invited to submit an extended version of
their submission for a special issue of the journal BioSystems
(Elsevier Science).

Topics include, but are not limited to:

o Natural computation and artificial life
o Synthetic, executable and computational biology
o Computational intelligence and machine learning
o Neural modelling, neural implants and neural computation
o Evolving, adapting, and neural hardware
o Artificial tissues and organs
o Autonomous, evolutionary, and biochemical robotics
o Molecular evolution and theoretical biology
o Artificial bio-sensor and vision implementations
o Quantum computation in cells and tissues
o Modeling of metabolic pathways and responses
o Developmental and morphogenetic systems
o Simulation of genetic and ecological systems
o Biological applications of nanotechnology
o DNA, chemical and bacterial computing
o Systems biology and bioinformatics
o Genome biology and mathematical biology

Keynote speakers:

Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Anne-Claude Gavin, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Leonid A. Mirny, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Karla Neugebauer, Max Planck Institute CBG, Dresden, Germany
Yitzhak Pilpel, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Pieter Rein ten Wolde, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Organising Committee:

Sarah Teichmann, Trinity College, Cambridge (General Chair)
Stephen L. Smith, University of York (General Chair)
Felix Naef, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (General Chair)
Michael Lones, University of York (Programme Chair)
James. A. Walker, University of York (Publicity Chair)
Martin Trefzer, University of York (Publicity Chair)